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ADRIANOPLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Adrianople mean?
• ADRIANOPLE (noun)
The noun ADRIANOPLE has 1 sense:
1. a city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian
Familiarity information: ADRIANOPLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Adrianople; Adrianopolis; Edirne
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Adrianople" 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)
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