BRENNER PASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brenner Pass mean? 

• BRENNER PASS (noun)
  The noun BRENNER PASS has 1 sense:

1. an Alpine mountain pass connecting Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy that has long been a route for trade and for invasions

  Familiarity information: BRENNER PASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRENNER PASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Alpine mountain pass connecting Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy that has long been a route for trade and for invasions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

mountain pass; notch; pass (the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks)

Holonyms ("Brenner Pass" is a part of...):

Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)

Austria; Oesterreich; Republic of Austria (a mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century)