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The main city of ancient Phoenicia
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sidon
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ancient Phoenician city, from Greek Sidon , from Phoenician Tzidhon , literally "fishing place," from tzud "to hunt, to capture." Related: Sidonian .
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Sidon is the surname of: Andreas Sidon (born 1963), German professional boxer fighting in the heavyweight division Ephraim Sidon (born 1946), Israeli author, playwright and satirist, and writer of children's books Karol Sidon (born 1942), Czech rabbi, writer ...
Usage examples of sidon.
Already the criers have informed us that a major chief of the Sidonians has been captured by the supreme raid cacique and can be sent with our ultimatum to this huge town New Sidon City.
Gompha, Laodiceia, Emmaus and Thamna were sacked and razed to the ground, their peoples sent to the slave markets of Sidon and Antioch.
Babylon and the shops of Thebes--in Tyre, in Sidon, in Gades, in Palmyra, in Nineveh.
The sachems and caciques wish to speak to a man from Beyond, to send a message to the Dail of the city of New Sidon.
Towards the end of spring I embarked for Italy on a large galley of the fleet, taking with me Celer, now become indispensable, and Diotimus of Gadara, a young Greek of slave origin encountered in Sidon, who had beauty.
The coast was fractured by a number of fossae, and square harbors were being built where these canyons plunged into the ice—Tyre, Sidon, Pyriphlegethon, Hertzka, Morris.
The coast was fractured by a number of fossae, and square harbors were being built where these canyons plunged into the ice-Tyre, Sidon, Pyriphlegethon, Hertzka, Morris.