ASSUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Assur mean? 

• ASSUR (noun)
  The noun ASSUR has 1 sense:

1. an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just to the south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq

  Familiarity information: ASSUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just to the south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Ashur; Assur; Asur

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)

Assyria (an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq)