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SMYRNA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Smyrna mean?
• SMYRNA (noun)
The noun SMYRNA has 1 sense:
1. a port city in western Turkey
Familiarity information: SMYRNA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A port city in western Turkey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Izmir; Smyrna
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Holonyms ("Smyrna" is a part of...):
Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)
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