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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War;
[syn: Aegospotami, Aegospotamos]

2. a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC);
[syn: Aegospotami, Aegospotamos]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Aegospotamos n 1: a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War [syn: Aegospotami, Aegospotamos] 2: a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC) [syn: Aegospotami, Aegospotamos]