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Meaning of Hellespont | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈhɛl.ɪ.spɒnt/

Definitions

The strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea to the west.

historical

Equivalents

Deutsch Hellespont
Ελληνικά Ελλήσποντος
Español Helesponto
Français Hellespont
Русский Геллеспо́нт

Examples

“That he who has the time should lack the force, that she who has the force should lack the time! That a trifling and in all probability tractable obstruction of some endocrinal Bandusia, that a mere matter of forty-five or fifty minutes by the clock, should as effectively as death itself, or as the Hellespont, separate lovers.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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