Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rock_of_gibraltar

1 sense of rock of gibraltar

Sense 1
Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe -- (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)
       INSTANCE 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; "the American colony in Paris")
       INSTANCE OF=> promontory, headland, head, foreland -- (a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea))