AEGEAN SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aegean Sea mean? 

• AEGEAN SEA (noun)
  The noun AEGEAN SEA has 1 sense:

1. an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia

  Familiarity information: AEGEAN SEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AEGEAN SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Aegean; Aegean Sea

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Meronyms (parts of "Aegean Sea"):

Aegean island (an island in the Aegean Sea)

Lemnos; Limnos (a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties)

Holonyms ("Aegean Sea" is a part of...):

Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea (the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia)