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MYTILENE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry

Synonyms:

Lesbos; Lesvos; Mytilene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Aegean island (an island in the Aegean Sea)

Meronyms (members of "Mytilene"):

Lesbian (a resident of Lesbos)

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

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)

Aeolia; Aeolis (an ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC)

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