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    ROCK OF GIBRALTAR

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Herculesplay

    Synonyms:

    Calpe; Gibraltar; Rock of Gibraltar

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    colony; settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)

    foreland; head; headland; promontory (a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea))

    Meronyms (members of "Rock of Gibraltar"):

    Gibraltarian (a native or inhabitant of Gibraltar)

    Holonyms ("Rock of Gibraltar" is a part of...):

    Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

    Pillars of Hercules (the two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar; according to legend they were formed by Hercules)

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