Associations to the word «Adrianople»

Wiktionary

ADRIANOPLE, proper noun. Former name of Edirne.

Dictionary definition

ADRIANOPLE, noun. A city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope