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Meaning of Phocaea | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/fəʊˈsiːə/

Definitions

  1. An ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, now located in İzmir Province, Turkey; modern Foça.
  2. 25 Phocaea, a main belt asteroid.

Equivalents

Deutsch Phokaia
Ελληνικά Φώκαια
Français Phocée
Italiano Focea
Русский Фокея

Examples

“Theirs were the cities of Myus, and Priene, Colophon, Ephesus, Lebedus, Teos, Clazomene, Erythræ, Phocæa, and Miletus:—in the islands of Samos and Chios were two cities of the same name as the isles themselves.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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