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PELOPONNESIAN PENINSULA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC
Synonyms:
Peloponnese; Peloponnesian Peninsula; Peloponnesus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Peloponnesian Peninsula"):
Sparta (an ancient Greek city famous for military prowess; the dominant city of the Peloponnesus prior to the 4th century BC)
Olympia (a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games)
Holonyms ("Peloponnesian Peninsula" 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)
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