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Syme

/ˈsaɪmiː/

Syme proper noun: an island of the Dodecanese, Greece.

Proper noun (1)

Syme

  1. An island of the Dodecanese, Greece.
    • About the end of 1900 Symæan divers fishing from the sponge-fishing boat ‘Photios Lentiakós,’ under Captain Demetrios E. Kontos, pulled up the well-preserved hand of a bronze statue off the north coast of Antikythera, the ancient Aigile (Cerigotto), near the place called to-day Pinakakia, about an...1903, Arthur Stoddard Cooley, “The Bronze Hermes from Antikythera”, in Records of the Past, volume 2, pages 207–208
  2. A municipality of Rhodes regional unit, Greece.

Proper noun (2)

IPA/saɪm/

Syme (plural Symes)

  1. A surname transferred from the given name.

Forms of Syme

alternative formSymi
alternative formSimi
pluralSymes

Origin of Syme

From Latin Sȳmē.

From Sim, the short form of Simon.

Questions about Syme

What does Syme mean?
Syme means an island of the Dodecanese, Greece.
What part of speech is Syme?
Syme is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Syme?
Syme is pronounced /ˈsaɪmiː/.

Words near Syme in the dictionary

  1. symbolry
  2. symbols
  3. symbrachydactyly
  4. Symbrock
  5. symclosene
  6. Syme
  7. Symeon
  8. Symes
  9. symesite
  10. symetine
  11. symetrical

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