pentagon

Speech parts

1. pentagon - Noun

2. Pentagon - Proper noun

Meaning

A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

5-gon cinque diamond quadrilateral quintette dod five polygon quadrature dodecahedron hexagon rhombus pentagram octagon tetrahedron
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Hypernyms

polygon bureaucracy bureaucratism polygonal shape

Phrases with the word

five-pointed pentagon five-sided pentagon star pentagon they hit the Pentagon

Anagrams

pantogen

Examples

I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them 800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference. Emo Philips

EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time. Daniel Ellsberg

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie. L. Neil Smith

WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon. Julian Assange

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular. Jay Leno

But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it - everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' - you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?' Amy Goodman

Close letter words and terms

pentaglutamate pentaglycine pentaglycosylceramide Pentagon Gang pentagonal pentagonal icositetrahedron