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Gibraltar

DEFINITIONS OF: Gibraltar

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n 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

Synonyms:
Calpe, Rock of Gibraltar
Example of:
colony, settlement
a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
foreland, head, headland, promontory
a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
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