PILLARS OF HERCULES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pillars of Hercules mean? 

• PILLARS OF HERCULES (noun)
  The noun PILLARS OF HERCULES has 1 sense:

1. the two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar; according to legend they were formed by Hercules

  Familiarity information: PILLARS OF HERCULES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PILLARS OF HERCULES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar; according to legend they were formed by Hercules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

formation; geological formation ((geology) the geological features of the earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Pillars of Hercules"):

Calpe; Gibraltar; Rock of Gibraltar (location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules)

Abila; Abyla; Jebel Musa (a promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar; one of the Pillars of Hercules)

Holonyms ("Pillars of Hercules" is a part of...):

Strait of Gibraltar (the strait between Spain and Africa)