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TIGRIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tigris mean?
• TIGRIS (noun)
The noun TIGRIS has 1 sense:
1. an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River
Familiarity information: TIGRIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Tigris; Tigris River
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Tigris" is a part of...):
Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)
Syria; Syrian Arab Republic (an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization)
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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