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Pergamum

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An ancient Greek city and kingdom of western Asia Minor in modern-day western Turkey. It passed to Rome in the second century BC and was noted for its sculpture and its library, which Mark Antony gave to Cleopatra.

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  • proper noun an ancient Greek city, in western Anatolia, near modern Bergama

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; the technique of preparing sheepskins as parchment was developed here

Etymologies

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From Latin Pergamum, Ancient Greek Πέργαμον.

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Pergamon

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. city
  2. metropolis
  3. urban center

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