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SEVEN HILLS OF ROME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Seven Hills of Rome mean? 

SEVEN HILLS OF ROME (noun)
  The noun SEVEN HILLS OF ROME has 1 sense:

1. the hills on which the ancient city of Rome was builtplay

  Familiarity information: SEVEN HILLS OF ROME used as a noun is very rare.


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SEVEN HILLS OF ROME (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The hills on which the ancient city of Rome was built

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)

Meronyms (parts of "Seven Hills of Rome"):

Palatine (the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the location of the first settlement and the site of many imperial palaces)

Holonyms ("Seven Hills of Rome" is a part of...):

capital of Italy; Eternal City; Italian capital; Roma; Rome (capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)


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