AEGADEAN ISLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aegadean Isles mean? 

• AEGADEAN ISLES (noun)
  The noun AEGADEAN ISLES has 2 senses:

1. a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean

2. islands west of Sicily (now known as the Egadi Islands) where the Romans won a naval victory over the Carthaginians that ended the first Punic War in 241 BC

  Familiarity information: AEGADEAN ISLES used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AEGADEAN ISLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Aegadean Islands; Aegadean Isles; Aegates; Egadi Islands; Isole Egadi

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("Aegadean Isles" is a part of...):

Sicilia; Sicily (the Italian region on the island of Sicily)

Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea (the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Islands west of Sicily (now known as the Egadi Islands) where the Romans won a naval victory over the Carthaginians that ended the first Punic War in 241 BC

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Aegadean Isles; Aegates Isles

Instance hypernyms:

naval battle (a pitched battle between naval fleets)

Holonyms ("Aegadean Isles" is a part of...):

Punic War (one of the three wars between Carthage and Rome that resulted in the destruction of Carthage and its annexation by Rome; 264-241 BC, 218-201 BC, 149-146 BC)