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GILGAMISH
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• GILGAMISH (noun)
The noun GILGAMISH has 1 sense:
1. legendary Sumerian king and hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics
Familiarity information: GILGAMISH used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Legendary Sumerian king and hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)
Domain region:
Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)
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