THESSALY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Thessaly mean? 

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

1. a fertile plain on the Aegean Sea in east central Greece; Thessaly was a former region of ancient Greece

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THESSALY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fertile plain on the Aegean Sea in east central Greece; Thessaly was a former region of ancient Greece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Thessalia; Thessaly

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Thessaly"):

Cynoscephalae (the fields in Thessaly where in 197 BC the Romans defeated the Macedonians)

Domain member region:

battle of Cynoscephalae; Cynoscephalae (the battle that ended the second Macedonian War (197 BC); the Romans defeated Philip V who lost his control of Greece)

Holonyms ("Thessaly" is a part of...):

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)