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ABYDOS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Abydos" 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)