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LEANING TOWER OF PISA

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• LEANING TOWER OF PISA (noun)
The noun LEANING TOWER OF PISA has 1 sense:

1. a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular; construction was begun in 1174

Familiarity information: LEANING TOWER OF PISA used as a noun is very rare.

• LEANING TOWER OF PISA (noun)

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Meaning:

A tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular; construction was begun in 1174

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Leaning Tower; Leaning Tower of Pisa

Instance hypernyms:

belfry; campanile (a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building)

Holonyms ("Leaning Tower of Pisa" 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)

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(Cypriot proverb)

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