noun
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
• Syn: ↑Rock of Gibraltar, ↑Calpe
• Derivationally related forms: ↑Gibraltarian
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑colony, ↑settlement, ↑promontory, ↑headland, ↑head, ↑foreland
• Part Holonyms: ↑Pillars of Hercules, ↑Europe
• Member Meronyms: ↑Gibraltarian
Useful english dictionary. 2012.