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

2 senses of aegadean isles

Sense 1
Egadi Islands, Aegadean Isles, Aegadean Islands, Isole Egadi, Aegates -- (a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean)
       INSTANCE OF=> island -- (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Sense 2
Aegates Isles, Aegadean Isles -- (islands west of Sicily (now known as the Egadi Islands) where the Romans won a naval victory over the Carthaginians that ended the first Punic War in 241 BC)
       INSTANCE OF=> naval battle -- (a pitched battle between naval fleets)

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