PENTAGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pentagon mean? 

• PENTAGON (noun)
  The noun PENTAGON has 3 senses:

1. a government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense

2. the United States military establishment

3. a five-sided polygon

  Familiarity information: PENTAGON used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENTAGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

government building (a building that houses a branch of government)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The United States military establishment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Pentagon" is a kind of...):

bureaucracy; bureaucratism (nonelective government officials)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A five-sided polygon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("pentagon" is a kind of...):

polygon; polygonal shape (a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides)