GIBRALTAR as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • Calpe (what does Calpe mean?)
   • Rock of Gibraltar (what does Rock of Gibraltar mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Gibraltar is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • colony (what does colony mean?)
   • settlement (what does settlement mean?)
   • promontory (what does promontory mean?)
   • headland (what does headland mean?)
   • foreland (what does foreland mean?)