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GILGAMISH

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Overview

GILGAMISH (noun)
  The noun GILGAMISH has 1 sense:

1. legendary Sumerian king and hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epicsplay

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


English dictionary: Word details


GILGAMISH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Legendary Sumerian king and hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain region:

Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)


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