Gallipoli
Syllables: Gal·li·po·li/ɡəˈlɪpəli//ɡəˈlɪpəli/
Gallipoli proper noun: the Gallipoli Campaign (1915–1916) in World War I.
Proper noun
Gallipoli
- The Gallipoli Campaign (1915–1916) in World War I.
- And anyway, it strikes me that the blasted English use Anzacs as fodder for the enemy guns, putting them into places where they don't want to waste their own precious tropps. Look at the way that saber-rattling [Winston] Churchill sent our men into something as useless as Gallipoli! Ten thousand...1977, Colleen McCullough, “1921–1928”, in The Thorn Birds, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 40
- Synonyms:
- Chersonese, Chersonesus Thracica, Thracian Chersonese
- Synonym of Gelibolu: a town and municipality of Turkey, located on the Gallipoli peninsula (sense 1).
- Synonyms:
- Chersonese, Chersonesus Thracica, Thracian Chersonese, Gelibolu
- A town in Lecce, Apulia, Italy.
- Gallipoli oil Gallipoli soap
Gallipoli meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada
Gallipoli in Tamil
- peninsula in Turkey
- கலிபோலி kalipōli
Gallipoli in Urdu
- peninsula in Turkey
- گیلی پولی gelī polī
Gallipoli in Bengali
- peninsula in Turkey
- গ্যালিপলি gêlipoli
Gallipoli in Kannada
- peninsula in Turkey
- ಗಲಿಪೊಲಿ galipoli
More languagesFewer languages
- Gallipoli in Tagalog
- Gallipoli
- Gallipoli in Arabic
- جاليبولي, قليبلي
- Gallipoli in Malay
- Gallipoli
- Gallipoli in Indonesian
- Gallipoli
- Gallipoli in Persian
- گالیپولی
- Gallipoli in Thai
- กัลลิโพลี
- Gallipoli in Vietnamese
- Gallipoli
Synonyms of Gallipoli
- Chersonese
- Chersonesus Thracica
- Thracian Chersonese
- Gelibolu
Origin of Gallipoli
Sense 1 (“peninsula in Turkey”) is borrowed from Italian Gallipoli, from Turkish Gelibolu, and from its etymon Byzantine Greek Καλλίπολῐς (Kallípolĭs, “Kallipolis, former name of Gelibolu”) and late variant forms, from Ancient Greek κᾰ́λλος (kắllos, “beauty; beautiful person or thing; nobility”) (of unknown origin, disputedly from Proto-Indo-European *kal- (“beautiful”)) + πόλις (pólis, “city; city-state”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tpelH- (“city; fortification”)). Doublet of Callipolis, Gelibolu, and Kallipolis. Sense 2 (“town in Italy”) is borrowed from Italian Gallipoli, from Latin Callipolis, from Byzantine Greek Καλλίπολῐς (Kallípolĭs): see above.
Words formed from Gallipoli
- Gallipolian
- Gallipoli Day
- Gallipoli gallop
Words that rhyme with Gallipoli
Questions about Gallipoli
- What does Gallipoli mean?
- Gallipoli means the Gallipoli Campaign (1915–1916) in World War I.
- What is Gallipoli in Tamil?
- Gallipoli in Tamil is கலிபோலி (kalipōli). See Gallipoli meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is Gallipoli?
- Gallipoli is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Gallipoli?
- Gallipoli is pronounced /ɡəˈlɪpəli/ (UK).
Words near Gallipoli in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Gallipoli (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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