Seven Wonders of the World

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

• In ancient times, the pyramids of Egypt; the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; Phidias's statue of Zeus at Olympia; the temple of Artemis at Ephesus; the tomb, or mausoleum, of King Mausolus at Halicarnassus; the Colossus of Rhodes; and either the Pharos, or lighthouse, at Alexandria or the walls of Babylon. The list of manmade wonders was first compiled by a Hellenistic traveler in the second century BC.

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• proper noun Any of several lists of remarkable natural or man-made places.

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• noun impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe