Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Ancient Gibraltar. Calpe was one of the Pillars of Hercules at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tribute, commonly a horse or cow, paid by a member of a Highland clan, or a vassal, to the chief, in return for his protection.
- noun A genus of Noctuidæ, founded by Treitschke in 1825.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the Rock of Gibraltar, a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; associated with Britain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun obsolete Original name of Calyptra.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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In ancient times the name Calpe was applied to the rock of Gibraltar and
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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This was another real driver's run, especially when we turned off as the road went south and we continued east, eventually emerging at 'Calpe'.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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50 28 N. Gibraltar, a town of Spain, in An - dalufia, near a mountain of the fame name, formerly called Calpe, which, with Abyla, on the oppofite fhore of Africa, were called the Pillars of Hercules.
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Two male pensioners died after staying at the Diamante Beach Hotel in Calpe, Valencia, Saga Holidays said.
Two British pensioners on Spanish holiday die of legionnaires' disease 2012
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According to WordReference the 2005 Espasa-Calpe accepts stablishment, though the DRAE does not, as an alternative to establishment in the limited English sense of the people who run the country: stablishment o establishment
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Translated novel: Déjame entrar (Let the right one in), John Ajvide Lindqvist (Espasa-Calpe)
Premios Nocte sfawardswatch 2009
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According to WordReference the 2005 Espasa-Calpe accepts stablishment, though the DRAE does not, as an alternative to establishment in the limited English sense of the people who run the country: stablishment o establishment
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Calpe, near Valencia, where some guests at the Diamante Beach Hotel have fallen ill in an outbreak of legionnaire's disease.
Two British pensioners on Spanish holiday die of legionnaires' disease 2012
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According to WordReference the 2005 Espasa-Calpe accepts stablishment, though the DRAE does not, as an alternative to establishment in the limited English sense of the people who run the country: stablishment o establishment
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According to La Gazzetta, Di Luca will sign a contract with Katusha during a presentation in front of some 500 students today in Possagno, Italy, and join his new Katusha teammates at a training camp in Calpe, Spain, this week.
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