Chios

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Chios
       n : an island in the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey;
           belongs to Greece [syn: {Khios}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Chios
     mentioned in Acts 20:15, an island in the Aegean Sea, about 5
     miles distant from the mainland, having a roadstead, in the
     shelter of which Paul and his companions anchored for a night
     when on his third missionary return journey. It is now called
     Scio.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Chios, open; opening