Definitions for Herculaneum

Herculaneum Her·cu·la·ne·um

Spelling: [hur-kyuh-ley-nee-uh m]
IPA: /ˌhɜr kyəˈleɪ ni əm/

Herculaneum is a 11 letter English word.

You can make 614 anagrams from letters in Herculaneum (aceehlmnruu).

Definitions for Herculaneum

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  1. an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.

Examples for Herculaneum

They were the cliffs of Herculaneum, with their shot-towers.

The two principal towns were called Herculaneum and Pompeii.

I only went into the Pompeii and Herculaneum part of the collections.

It is said that some of them were hardly inferior in form and finish to the exquisite vases found in Herculaneum and Pompeii.

"Ah, but Herculaneum is a very different thing," said Mrs. Gray.

By the railway we have passed through Herculaneum, and here we are at Pompeii.

The discovery of Pompeii followed, after an interval, the discovery of Herculaneum.

The Forum is distant from the gate of Herculaneum about four hundred yards.

Pompeii lies to the south-east from the mountain, and Herculaneum to the south-west.

The explorers of Herculaneum depose to the discovery of such an ornament there.

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