rock of gibraltar

What does rock of gibraltar mean?

rock of gibraltar means "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".

What is another word for rock of gibraltar?

Close synonyms include Gibraltar, Calpe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rock of gibraltar a common word?

rock of gibraltar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rock of gibraltar come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.