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UR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Ur mean?
• UR (noun)
The noun UR has 1 sense:
1. an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River
Familiarity information: UR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Ur" is a part of...):
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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