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TIGRIS RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tigris River mean? 

TIGRIS RIVER (noun)
  The noun TIGRIS RIVER has 1 sense:

1. an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates Riverplay

  Familiarity information: TIGRIS RIVER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TIGRIS RIVER (noun)


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 River" 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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