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LEANING TOWER OF PISA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Leaning Tower of Pisa mean? 

LEANING TOWER OF PISA (noun)
  The noun LEANING TOWER OF PISA has 1 sense:

1. a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular; construction was begun in 1174play

  Familiarity information: LEANING TOWER OF PISA used as a noun is very rare.


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LEANING TOWER OF PISA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular; construction was begun in 1174

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Leaning Tower; Leaning Tower of Pisa

Instance hypernyms:

belfry; campanile (a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building)

Holonyms ("Leaning Tower of Pisa" is a part of...):

Pisa (a city in Tuscany; site of the famous Leaning Tower)


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