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    SANTA SOPHIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th centuryplay

    Synonyms:

    Hagia Sofia; Hagia Sophia; Santa Sofia; Santa Sophia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Instance hypernyms:

    museum (a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value)

    Holonyms ("Santa Sophia" is a part of...):

    Constantinople; Istanbul; Stamboul; Stambul (the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church)

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