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Symi

/ˈsiːmi/

Symi is the alternative form of Syme.

Meaning of Syme

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)

Syme (plural Symes)

  1. A surname transferred from the given name.

Origin of Symi

Influenced by the standard Modern Greek Romanisation of Σύμη (Sými).

Questions about Symi

What is Symi the alternative form of?
Symi is the alternative form of Syme.
How do you pronounce Symi?
Symi is pronounced /ˈsiːmi/.

Words near Symi in the dictionary

  1. Symeon
  2. Symes
  3. symesite
  4. symetine
  5. symetrical
  6. Symi
  7. Symington
  8. Symingtons
  9. symitar
  10. symitars
  11. symlet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Symi (page history and authors); Syme (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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