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AEGEAN SEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Aegean Sea mean?
• AEGEAN SEA (noun)
The noun AEGEAN SEA has 1 sense:
1. an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia
Familiarity information: AEGEAN SEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Aegean; Aegean Sea
Instance hypernyms:
sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
Meronyms (parts of "Aegean Sea"):
Aegean island (an island in the Aegean Sea)
Lemnos; Limnos (a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties)
Holonyms ("Aegean Sea" is a part of...):
Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea (the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia)
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