English Explanatory Dictionary

Pillars of Hercules

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The two promontories at the Strait of Gibraltar, and thus the western limit of the Mediterranean world.

Word forms

Pillars of Hercules

Etymology

Calque of Latin Columnae Herculis.

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