单词 | Gibraltar |
释义 | Gibraltar (once / 1195 pages) n WORD FAMILY Gibraltar: Gibraltarian, Gibraltars+/Gibraltarian: Gibraltarians USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s a list that includes not just the well-known examples of Gibraltar, Cyprus and Malta, but also Corfu and Minorca, and even Calais. The Guardian(Dec 23, 2016) The highest share of the vote achieved by the Remain camp was in Gibraltar, which is not shown on the map above. BBC(Jun 24, 2016) That fall, she wrangled an artist residency at Gibraltar Point, on bucolic Toronto Island. The Guardian(Dec 14, 2016) n 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 Syn|Exp Calpe, Rock of Gibraltar colony, settlement a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government foreland, head, headland, promontorya natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) |
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