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

2 senses of limerick

Sense 1
Limerick -- (port city in southwestern Ireland)
       INSTANCE OF=> city, metropolis, urban center -- (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city")
       INSTANCE OF=> port -- (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Sense 2
limerick -- (a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba)
       => verse, rhyme -- (a piece of poetry)