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MEDITERRANEAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia
Synonyms:
Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
Meronyms (parts of "Mediterranean"):
Tyrrhenian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and Sicily)
Perejil (a small uninhabited Mediterranean islet claimed by both Morocco and Spain)
Ligurian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between northwest Italy and Corsica)
Ionian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy)
Gulf of Sidra (wide inlet of the Mediterranean Sea on the north coast of Libya)
Gulf of Antalya (a gulf of the Mediterranean Sea in southwestern Turkey)
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)
Adriatic; Adriatic Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west)
Abukir; Abukir Bay (a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt)
Malta (a strategically located island to the south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea)
Corse; Corsica (an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France)
Sicilia; Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean)
Sardegna; Sardinia (an island in the Mediterranean to the west of Italy)
Aegadean Islands; Aegadean Isles; Aegates; Egadi Islands; Isole Egadi (a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean)
Crete; Kriti (the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC)
Cyprus (an island in the eastern Mediterranean)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Mediterranean"):
mare nostrum ((our sea) the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans)
Derivation:
Mediterranean (of or relating to or characteristic of or located near the Mediterranean Sea)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of or located near the Mediterranean Sea
Example:
Mediterranean countries
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Mediterranean (the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia)
Derivation:
Mediterranean (the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia)
Context examples:
The health benefits of olives — and associated natural products such as olive oil — have long been recognized and touted by proponents of the Mediterranean diet.
(Health Benefits of Olives and Olive Oil, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I wished for him again the next summer, when I had still the same luck in the Mediterranean.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Denotes a person having origins in any of the countries abutting the Mediterranean Sea, principally those of Europe.
(Mediterranean, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in the Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria.
(Lebanon, NCI Thesaurus)
This disorder is most common in African-American men and in men of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean descent.
(G6PD Deficiency, NCI Dictionary)
The benefits of a Mediterranean diet are widely chronicled, but new research shows extra-virgin olive oil, a key part of the diet, may protect “against cognitive decline.”
(Study: Olive Oil Protects Brain From Alzheimer’s, VOA News)
Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Sea and from the Rhine River to the Atlantic Ocean.
(Metropolitan France, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, south of Spain and between Algeria and Western Sahara.
(Morocco, NCI Thesaurus)
The disease is classified into three main types according to geographic distribution: Indian, Mediterranean (or infantile), and African.
(Kala-Azar, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
You shall go to a place I have in the south of France: a whitewashed villa on the shores of the Mediterranean.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
