of or relating to this people or their dialect of Ancient Greek; Aeolic
of or relating to Aeolus
denoting or relating to an authentic mode represented by the ascending natural diatonic scale from A to A: the basis of the modern minor key See also Hypo-
First recorded in 1595–1605; Aeoli(us) pertaining to Aeolus + -an adjective suffix; see -an
First recorded in 1580–90; from Latin Aeoli(ī), (from Greek Aioleîs “the Aeolians,” with change of suffix) + -an
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The cost of the drinking water produced by desalination plants on the Aeolian Islands is around two euros per cubic metre.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Vulcano - along with Alicudi - is one of the seven islands that make up the Aeolian archipelago.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024
It’s one of the Aeolian islands in Italy, and it looks out on Stromboli.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
He had an Aeolian pipe organ installed at one end of the room.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2018
Four vocalists were to be chosen to compete in the final round, but soon after Marian had returned from Aeolian Hall to Boghetti’s New York studio, the phone rang.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
Finally, the fourth removes all anthropogenic sources for reference, thus only accounting for natural sources such as aeolian dust, marine and terrestrial biosphere emissions, and natural wildfires.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
She’d designed as she would have designed for herself, a cathedral carved into a hillside, and aeolian pipes in it and grown into the trees outside.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2022
“It’s obviously a simplification, but I imagine I would be closer to the activist side of the spectrum,” says Taylor, whose less aeolian approach set him at odds with one French writer, Maylis de Kerangal.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2019
With sufficient sediment influx, aeolian systems can potentially form large dunes in dry or wet conditions.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Here he would sit near her hour after hour; sometimes mending her aeolian harp while they talked together, sometimes reading aloud to the assembled company.
From Authors and Friends by Fields, Annie
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