noun
1. a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean
• Syn: ↑Egadi Islands, ↑Aegadean Islands, ↑Isole Egadi, ↑Aegates
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑island
• Part Holonyms: ↑Sicily, ↑Sicilia, ↑Mediterranean, ↑Mediterranean Sea
2. islands west of Sicily (now known as the Egadi Islands) where the Romans won a naval victory over the Carthaginians that ended the first Punic War in 241 BC
• Syn: ↑Aegates Isles
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑naval battle
• Part Holonyms: ↑Punic War
Useful english dictionary. 2012.