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AEGOSPOTAMOS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC)
Synonyms:
Aegospotami; Aegospotamos
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
naval battle (a pitched battle between naval fleets)
Holonyms ("Aegospotamos" is a part of...):
Peloponnesian War (a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War
Synonyms:
Aegospotami; Aegospotamos
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
brook; creek (a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river))
Holonyms ("Aegospotamos" is a part of...):
Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)
