Associations to the word «Gibraltar»

Wiktionary

GIBRALTAR, proper noun. An overseas territory of the United Kingdom at the southern end of Iberia.
GIBRALTAR, proper noun. A strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco.
GIBRALTAR ROCK, noun. Rock candy

Dictionary definition

GIBRALTAR, 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats