Definitions for Gibraltar

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Gibraltar Gi·bral·tar

Spelling: [ji-brawl-ter]

IPA: /dʒɪˈbrɔl tər/

Gibraltar is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in Gibraltar (aabgilrrt).

Definitions for Gibraltar

noun

1. a British crown colony comprising a fortress and seaport located on a narrow promontory near the S tip of Spain. 1.875 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
2. Rock of. Ancient Calpe. a long, precipitous mountain nearly coextensive with this colony: one of the Pillars of Hercules. 1,396 feet (426 meters) high; 2.5 miles (4 km) long. any person or thing that has strength and endurance that can be relied on.
3. Strait of, a strait between Europe and Africa at the Atlantic entrance to the Mediterranean. 8.5–23 miles (14–37 km) wide.
4. any impregnable fortress or stronghold.

Examples for Gibraltar

In January we sailed, making the best of our way for the straits of Gibraltar.

Walk to Gibraltar across the border at La Línea in Spain (74 miles east of Malaga).

“This is much more than a traffic jam at the border,” Dominique Searle, editor of the Gibraltar Chronicle told The Daily Beast.

Thus Spain lost Gibraltar, and she has never been able to recover it since.

In recent years, a slew of online gambling companies have relocated from the United Kingdom to Gibraltar to enjoy the lower taxes.

We lay-to off the Cape two days, and then ran into Gibraltar, and anchored.

Jacob was going out to Gibraltar in the course of the next week.

“Hell will freeze over before Gibraltar removes the concrete,” Picardo insisted.

Looking about me, I found a brig called the Hippomenes, bound to Gibraltar, and back.

Home to 30,000 British citizens, Gibraltar would be a way to hit the United Kingdom via the back door.