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Definition of Gibraltar

1. Noun. Location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules.

Definition of Gibraltar

1. n. A strongly fortified town on the south coast of Spain, held by the British since 1704; hence, an impregnable stronghold.

Definition of Gibraltar

1. Proper noun. An overseas territory of the United Kingdom at the southern end of Iberia. ¹

2. Proper noun. A strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibraltar

Literary usage of Gibraltar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"But Shelburne, though ready for considerable concessions, well knew the exhausted condition of the Spanish treasury, and in the matter of gibraltar ..."

2. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"Owing to this or other causes, the king remained firm, and gibraltar was not ... In 1749, a singular attempt was ROCK OF gibraltar, made in England to ..."

3. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1905)
"gibraltar the fortress has been pictured times out of number, ... Only certain liners pass gibraltar in the daytime, and still fewer stop at the Rock ..."

4. Spain and Portugal: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1898)
"The market of gibraltar is supplied from the Vegetable Oar- dens of La Linea ... From gibraltar to Cadiz via Tangier. The excursion to Tangier is well worth ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"gibraltar was besieged, in 1309, and retaken from the Moors by Alonzo de Guzman. By 1462 it had sustained eight sieges, with varying fortune. ..."

6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1877)
"As, therefore, the wholesale abolition of the gibraltar trade appears ... gibraltar had no sooner been proclaimed the property of the English crown, ..."

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