Pharos is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PHAROS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Greek) a lighthouse or beacon, also PHARE
• a lighthouse, often considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World, erected by Ptolemy II (308–246 BC) in c.280 BC on the island of Pharos, off the coast of Alexandria.
• a lighthouse or beacon to guide sailors.
• A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.
• a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
• a lighthouse, often considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World, erected by Ptolemy II (308–246 BC) in c.280 BC on the island of Pharos, off the coast of Alexandria.
• lighthouse
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a lighthouse or beacon to guide seamen

Words related to PHAROS

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Words that contain PHAROS

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How to use PHAROS in a sentence

• By day the din of his hammer rarely ceased, and by night the flame and sparks from his chimney were a Pharos to all travellers approaching the town.
• Antony, full of repentance and despair, shut himself up in Pharos, and there remained in gloomy isolation.
• And without the consent of those who are masters of the Pharos, no vessels can enter the harbour, on account of its narrowness.
• Caesar being greatly alarmed on this account, whilst the enemy were engaged in battle, landed his soldiers, seized the Pharos, and placed a garrison in it.
• It was situated upon the island of Pharos, opposite to the city, and at some distance from it.
• The Pharos was said to have been four hundred feet high.
• Thus the Abyssinian rains at the sources of the Nile built the Pharos at its mouth, and endowed the Alexandrian library.
• A mile distant was the island of Pharos, which was connected with the mainland by a great moll.
• In the centre, opposite the island of Pharos, was the Greek and official quarter.
• The eternal lights of the heavens are the only Pharos whose beams never fail, which no tempest can shake from its foundation.
• Misfortune to some natures is a pharos, which illumines to their eyes the dark low corners of social existence.
• And there is room to think, that the pillars and obelisks were made use of for beacons, and that every temple was a Pharos.
• Demetrius of Pharos, an unprincipled Greek, who was the chief counselor of Teuta, deserted his mistress, and surrendered to the Romans the important island of Corcyra.
• While the Romans were engaged in the Gallic wars, the traitor Demetrius of Pharos had usurped the chief power in Illyria, and had ventured upon many acts of piracy.
• Heed this confession of a woman to whom fame has been like a pharos, warning her of the only true path.
• There, is an account in Nonnus of a robe, or Pharos, which Harmonia is supposed to have worn when she was visited by the Goddess of beauty.
• Orpheus alludes to a Pharos of this sort, and to the paintings and furniture of it, in his description of the robes with which Apollo, or Dionusus, is invested.
• Tithonus, whose longevity is so much celebrated, was nothing more than one of these structures, a Pharos, sacred to the sun, as the name plainly shews.
• Thetis seems to have been a transposition of the same name, and was probably a Pharos, or Fire-tower, near the sea.
• We also saw the lantern of Pharos, that of Nauplion, and that of Acropolis at Athens, sacred to Pallas.
• A STORM, AND A DISMAL STATE OF THINGS ON BOARD THE PHAROS.
• The sea rose at once, and, long before daybreak, the Pharos was rolling heavily in the swell, and straining violently at the strong cable which held her to her moorings.
• With the rest he sailed over to the Pharos island, and landed men to make good the tower on that point of vantage.
• Next came a great struggle for the possession of the Pharos.
• There was no need of continuing at the Pharos, and it was well to assure the anxious garrison at the palace-fortress that their general was safe and sound.
• Then they passed the Pharos, and the land dwindled more and more into a narrow, dark ribbon betwixt blue water and bluer sky.
• Ancient notable examples are those which threw down the famous Colossus of Rhodes and the Pharos of Alexandria.
• Pharos long since disappeared, overthrown, it is thought, by an earthquake.

Similar words containing PHARO without suffix s

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