Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient city of west-central Italy at the mouth of the Tiber River. According to legend, it was founded in the seventh century BC. Ostia developed as a port after the first century BC and declined after the third century AD.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
ostium .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun an
ancient town inItaly at themouth of theTiber ; theharbour of ancientRome
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Examples
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The fever that started in Ostia is sweeping through Rome, and Jonathan, Flavia, Nubia, and Lupus are called by the Emperor to investigate.
The Enemies of Jupiter: Summary and book reviews of The Enemies of Jupiter by Caroline Lawrence. 2005
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The Girl from Jerusalem - back in Ostia, maybe to Judaea APR 2007 14
Some Frequently Asked Questions addressed to Roman Mysteries author Caroline Lawrence 2010
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"I think the faithful came to listen to Pope John Paul," said Lorenzo Cagliari, 50, a deacon in Ostia, a seaside town 20 miles from Rome.
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There are several in the series but the first, The Thieves of Ostia, is set in the eponymous port of Ancient Rome ...
The Enemies of Jupiter: Summary and book reviews of The Enemies of Jupiter by Caroline Lawrence. 2005
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The place was called Ostia, that word in the Latin tongue denoting _mouths_.
Nero Makers of History Series Jacob Abbott 1841
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Prepare to be baffled as much as you're battered: opening track 'Ostia' lays down fat, fuzzed-up beats that scream 'Rocket USA' or 'Ghostrider' (from the first Suicide album), for a dozen-or-so bars, before live cymbals gallop in, and then a full-kit with all the instruments writhing around them with a limberness and energy you'd think impossible for figures so intricate.
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Since the economic boom of the 1950s, working-class bathers from nearby Rome have flocked to the beach clubs of Ostia, near Rome.
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A beach at Ostia, near Rome, where extra sand has been trucked in to make up for coastline lost to winter storms and rising sea levels.
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I suggest that local photographs can accentuate, in your midst, an Ostia Antica -- the ruins of the abandoned seaport of ancient Rome -- now isolated from the sea.
Charles R. Wolfe: Exploring the Immediacy of the In-Between Place Charles R. Wolfe 2011
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For patrons of the Sporting Beach Club in Ostia, where forlorn lines of changing rooms that once stood 150 metres back from the sea are now buffeted by waves, the new sand cannot arrive soon enough.
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