SAN JUAN HILL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A hill in eastern Cuba (near Santiago de Cuba) that was captured during the Spanish-American War

Example:

Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders became famous for their charge up San Juan Hill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)

Holonyms ("San Juan Hill" is a part of...):

Cuba (the largest island in the West Indies)

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