MEDITERRANEAN

Pronunciation (US):

• MEDITERRANEAN (noun)
  The noun MEDITERRANEAN has 1 sense:

1. the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia

  Familiarity information: MEDITERRANEAN used as a noun is very rare.

• MEDITERRANEAN (adjective)
  The adjective MEDITERRANEAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of or located near the Mediterranean Sea

  Familiarity information: MEDITERRANEAN used as an adjective is very rare.

• MEDITERRANEAN (noun)

Meaning:

The largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Meronyms (parts of "Mediterranean"):

Cyprus (an island in the eastern Mediterranean)

Perejil (a small uninhabited Mediterranean islet claimed by both Morocco and Spain)

Ligurian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between northwest Italy and Corsica)

Ionian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy)

Gulf of Sidra (wide inlet of the Mediterranean Sea on the north coast of Libya)

Gulf of Antalya (a gulf of the Mediterranean Sea in southwestern Turkey)

Aegean; Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia)

Adriatic; Adriatic Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west)

Abukir; Abukir Bay (a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt)

Malta (a strategically located island south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea)

Corse; Corsica (an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France)

Sicilia; Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean)

Sardegna; Sardinia (an island in the Mediterranean west of Italy)

Aegadean Islands; Aegadean Isles; Aegates; Egadi Islands; Isole Egadi (a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean)

Crete; Kriti (the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC)

Tyrrhenian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and Sicily)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Mediterranean"):

mare nostrum ((our sea) the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans)

• MEDITERRANEAN (adjective)

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of or located near the Mediterranean Sea

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Mediterranean countries

Pertainym:

Mediterranean (the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia)