skyriot means of or relating to Skyros or its inhabitants. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
skyriot is pronounced /ˈskiː.ɹi.ət/.
Etymology
From Skyros + -iot.
adj
- Of or relating to Skyros or its inhabitants.“Skyriot wares are hardly exported at all, except to Athens for the benefit of the folk-art enthusiasts. I have never met them outside the island except at the little town of Kyme on the east coast of Euboea opposite Skyros. Here it is natural to expect them, for Kyme is the nearest mainland town to the island.”
noun
- One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Skyros.“Many years later, say the Skyriots, the British fleet with [Rupert] Brooke on board, was steaming north to free Constantinople from the Turks. The poet was dangerously ill, and when his ship came abreast of Skyros – strange destiny! – he died. His friends who were with him remembered his wish, and buried him with honour in the place he had loved and chosen so many years before.”