ADRIANOPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Adrianople mean? 

• ADRIANOPLE (noun)
  The noun ADRIANOPLE has 1 sense:

1. a city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian

  Familiarity information: ADRIANOPLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADRIANOPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Adrianople; Adrianopolis; Edirne

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Adrianople" 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)