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BOSPORUS BRIDGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A suspension bridge across the Bosporus at Istanbul
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Instance hypernyms:
suspension bridge (a bridge that has a roadway supported by cables that are anchored at both ends)
Holonyms ("Bosporus Bridge" is a part of...):
Constantinople; Istanbul; Stamboul; Stambul (the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church)