tower of pharos

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   a great lighthouse (500 feet high) built at Alexandria in 285 BC

   Broaderbeacon

   Part ofSeven Wonders of the Ancient World

Questions about tower of pharos

What does tower of pharos mean?

tower of pharos means "a great lighthouse (500 feet high) built at Alexandria in 285 BC".

Is tower of pharos a common word?

tower of pharos is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.