Dodecanese

Do·de·ca·nese

geographical name
\dō-ˈde-kə-ˌnēz, -ˌnēs; ˌdō-di-kə-ˈ\

Definition of DODECANESE

islands Greece in the SE Aegean comprising the Southern Sporades S of Ikaria & Samos; belonged to Italy 1923–47 area 486 square miles (1264 square kilometers), pop 162,439 — see rhodes

— Do·de·ca·ne·sian \(ˌ)dō-ˌde-kə-ˈnē-zhən, ˌdō-di-kə-, -shən\ adjective or noun

Rhymes with DODECANESE

Abdülaziz, Albigenses, Aragonese, archdiocese, Averroës, Barcelonese, bona fides, bureaucratese, cheval-de-frise, computerese, Diogenes, Dutch elm disease, Egas Moniz, Eumenides, Euripides, Florida Keys, governmentese, Great Pyrenees, Hesperides, Hippocrates, Hippomenes, Indo-Chinese, kissing disease, mad cow disease, Marie-Louise, officialese, Pentagonese, Philoctetes, Sammarinese, social disease, suicide squeeze, superficies, telegraphese, Themistocles, Thucydides, Vietnamese