Mallorca
/məˈljɔɹ.kə/ name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 An island in the Mediterranean; largest of the Balearic Islands.
Synonyms
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More examples"Globalization has gone mad: why transport Spanish cucumbers to exterminate the Northern Germans when half of them live in Mallorca? We need to rationalize all of that and adopt a more solid method of bacterial decontamination."
Etymology
From Spanish and Catalan Mallorca, from Late Latin Maiorica, ultimately from Latin maior.