HELLESPONT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey

Synonyms:

Canakkale Bogazi; Dardanelles; Hellespont

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

sound; strait (a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water)

Holonyms ("Hellespont" is a part of...):

Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)

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