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 Definitions of Pentagon  [ˈpɛn təˌgɒn]  

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Definition of 'Pentagon' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) pentagon
a polygon having five angles and five sides.

2.  pentagon
the Pentagon,

3.  pentagon
a building in Arlington, Va., built in the form of a pentagon and containing most of the offices of the U.S. Department of Defense.

4.  pentagon
the U.S. Department of Defense; the U.S. military establishment.

Etymology:  (1560–70; < LL pentagōnum < Gk pentágōnon, n. use of neut. of pentágōnos five-angled. See penta -, -gon)

Definition of 'Pentagon' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) Pentagon
a government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense

2. (noun) Pentagon
the United States military establishment

3. (noun) pentagon
a five-sided polygon


Definition of 'Pentagon' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Pentagon
a plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles


Translation of 'Pentagon' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a 5-sided geometrical figure.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: vyfhoek Arabic flag Arabic: مُخَمَّس، شَكْل خُماسي Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: петоъгълник
Brazilian flag Brazilian: pentágono Czech flag Czech: pětiúhelník German flag German: das Fünfeck
Danish flag Danish: femkant; pentagon Greek flag Greek: πεντάγωνο Spanish flag Spanish: pentágono
Estonian flag Estonian: viisnurk Farsi flag Farsi: پنج ضلعی Finnish flag Finnish: viisikulmio
French flag French: pentagone Hebrew flag Hebrew: מְחוּמָש Hindi flag Hindi: पंचभुजी
Croatian flag Croatian: Ministarstvo oružanih sna Hungarian flag Hungarian: ötszög Indonesian flag Indonesian: segi lima
Icelandic flag Icelandic: fimmhyrningur Italian flag Italian: pentagono Japanese flag Japanese: 5角形
Korean flag Korean: 5각형 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: penkiakampis Latvian flag Latvian: piecstūris
Malay flag Malay: pentagon Dutch flag Dutch: vijfhoek Norwegian flag Norwegian: femkant, pentagon
Polish flag Polish: pięciokąt, pięciobok Persian flag Persian: پنج ضلعی Pashto flag Pashto: هغه جسم چې پنځه خواوې لري
Portuguese flag Portuguese: pentágono Romanian flag Romanian: pentagon Russian flag Russian: пятиугольник
Slovak flag Slovak: päťuholník Slovenian flag Slovenian: peterokotnik Serbian flag Serbian: petougaonik
Swedish flag Swedish: femhörning, pentagon Thai flag Thai: รูปห้าเหลี่ยม Turkish flag Turkish: beşgen
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 五邊形 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: п'ятикутник Urdu flag Urdu: پنج رخي شکل
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: hình ngũ giác Chinese flag Chinese: 五边形

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