HIPPO REGIUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hippo Regius mean? 

• HIPPO REGIUS (noun)
  The noun HIPPO REGIUS has 1 sense:

1. an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria

  Familiarity information: HIPPO REGIUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIPPO REGIUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Hippo; Hippo Regius

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Hippo Regius" is a part of...):

Algeria; Algerie; Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria (a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s)