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TANGIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city of northern Morocco at the west end of the Strait of Gibraltar
Example:
the first tangerines were shipped from Tangier to Europe in 1841
Synonyms:
Tangier; Tangiers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Tangier" is a part of...):
Al-Magrib; Kingdom of Morocco; Maroc; Marruecos; Morocco (a kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa with a largely Muslim population; achieved independence from France in 1956)
