IZMIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Izmir mean? 

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

1. a port city in western Turkey

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IZMIR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port city in western Turkey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Izmir; Smyrna

Instance hypernyms:

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

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Izmir" 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)