Associations to the word «Hellespont»

Wiktionary

HELLESPONT, proper noun. The strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea to the west.

Dictionary definition

HELLESPONT, noun. The strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope