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PENTAGON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Instance hypernyms:
government building (a building that houses a branch of government)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The United States military establishment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Pentagon" is a kind of...):
bureaucracy; bureaucratism (nonelective government officials)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A five-sided polygon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("pentagon" is a kind of...):
polygon; polygonal shape (a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides)
