calpe
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1. location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | colony, settlement, |
| definition | : | a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government (noun.group) |
| instance hypernym | : | foreland, head, headland, promontory, |
| definition | : | a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | europe, |
| definition | : | the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | pillars of hercules, |
| definition | : | the two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar; according to legend they were formed by Hercules (noun.object) |
| member holonym | : | gibraltarian, |
| definition | : | a native or inhabitant of Gibraltar (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | gibraltarian, |
| definition | : | of or relating to Gibraltar or its inhabitants (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | gibraltarian, |
| definition | : | of or relating to Gibraltar or its inhabitants (adj.pert) |
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