Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of southern Italy in the Mediterranean Sea west of the southern end of the Italian peninsula. It was colonized from the eighth century BC by Greeks, who displaced the earlier Phoenician settlers. The next conquerors were Carthaginians, who in turn were conquered by Romans in the third century BC. After a succession of other rulers the island came under the control of the Normans in the 11th century AD and formed the nucleus of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, consisting of Sicily and southern Italy. The island continued to change hands until a later kingdom was conquered by Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860 and became part of unified Italy.
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- proper noun An autonomous region and island of
Italy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the Italian region on the island of Sicily
- noun the largest island in the Mediterranean
Etymologies
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Examples
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The masterly series of Montalbano novelsby Andrea Camilleri, set in Sicily, is well-captured in the Italian TV films of Excursion to Tindari and one with a title about croquettes (seeminglywritten for TV by the author).
December 2008 Maxine 2008
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The masterly series of Montalbano novelsby Andrea Camilleri, set in Sicily, is well-captured in the Italian TV films of Excursion to Tindari and one with a title about croquettes (seeminglywritten for TV by the author).
Wallander and Montalbano: films or books? Maxine 2008
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The masterly series of Montalbano novelsby Andrea Camilleri, set in Sicily, is well-captured in the Italian TV films of Excursion to Tindari and one with a title about croquettes (seeminglywritten for TV by the author).
Wallander and Montalbano: films or books? Maxine 2008
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The Mafia is almost totally expunged in Sicily anyhow – at least publicly.
Mafia-free wine, White House, Justice Roberts, wine service – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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He lived for a year in Sicily before moving to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England.
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Though, Vogue writes, "Kate Moss 'agent denied more rumours this morning that the supermodel married her long-term boyfriend Jamie Hince over the summer, confirming that she is not married and that a' low-key ceremony in Sicily 'never happened."
Kate Moss & Jamie Hince Secretly Married? The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Just because you have asked, I was unfamiliar with but liked very much the reds from Mount Etna in Sicily, and I also taste a Sicilian Fiano that I liked very much.
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I was reading a book the other night on the Allied war effort during the campaigns in Sicily and Italy during WWII.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Harold Koh Statements on Drone Warfare at ASIL Tonight 2010
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He and his hungry crew make a stop in Sicily at Mount Aetna, which is inhabited by Cyclopes.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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He lived for a year in Sicily before moving to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England.
Audio Interview with author David Mitchell, conducted by Nigel Beale. 2009
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