pharos
pronunciation
How to pronounce pharos in British English:
UK ['feərɒs]
How to pronounce pharos in American English:
US ['ferɒs]
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- Noun:
- a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
Word Origin
- Pharos (n.)
- as a word for a lighthouse, 1550s, in reference to the island of Pharos off the coast of Alexandria, on which Ptolemy Philadelphius built a mighty lighthouse.
Example
- 1. It belonged to a pharos daughter .
- 2. In the land of pharos and kings they said egypt could never be humbled .
- 3. The design and reality of new remote control and remote sense pharos .
- 4. The dynasty 's greatest legacy was alexandria itself , with its hundred-foot-wide main avenue , its gleaming limestone colonnades , its harborside palaces and temples overseen by a towering lighthouse , one of the seven wonders of the ancient world , on the island of pharos .