Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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: Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Rock of Gibraltar
n 1: 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:
Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe]