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AEGEAN ISLAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An island in the Aegean Sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("Aegean island" is a kind of...):
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Instance hyponyms:
Aegina; Aigina (an island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf)
Chios; Khios (an island in the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey; belongs to Greece)
Cyclades; Kikladhes (a group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean)
Dhodhekanisos; Dodecanese (a group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea)
Lesbos; Lesvos; Mytilene (an island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry)
Rhodes; Rodhos (a Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast; the largest of the Dodecanese; it was colonized before 1000 BC by Dorians from Argos; site of the Colossus of Rhodes)
Holonyms ("Aegean island" is a part of...):
Aegean; Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia)
