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

2 senses of aegospotami

Sense 1
Aegospotami, Aegospotamos -- (a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War)
       INSTANCE OF=> brook, creek -- (a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer")

Sense 2
Aegospotami, Aegospotamos -- (a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC))
       INSTANCE OF=> naval battle -- (a pitched battle between naval fleets)