AEGOSPOTAMOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aegospotamos mean? 

• AEGOSPOTAMOS (noun)
  The noun AEGOSPOTAMOS has 2 senses:

1. a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War

2. a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC)

  Familiarity information: AEGOSPOTAMOS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AEGOSPOTAMOS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Aegospotami; Aegospotamos

Instance hypernyms:

brook; creek (a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river))

Holonyms ("Aegospotamos" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Aegospotami; Aegospotamos

Instance hypernyms:

naval battle (a pitched battle between naval fleets)

Holonyms ("Aegospotamos" is a part of...):

Peloponnesian War (a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC)