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BARBARY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates from the 16th to 19th centuries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Barbary"):
Barbary Coast (the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates)
Holonyms ("Barbary" is a part of...):
Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
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