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ROCK OF GIBRALTAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules
Synonyms:
Calpe; Gibraltar; Rock of Gibraltar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
colony; settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)
foreland; head; headland; promontory (a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea))
Meronyms (members of "Rock of Gibraltar"):
Gibraltarian (a native or inhabitant of Gibraltar)
Holonyms ("Rock of Gibraltar" is a part of...):
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
Pillars of Hercules (the two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar; according to legend they were formed by Hercules)
