Usually means: Ancient Roman town, Vesuvius buried.
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  1. Herculaneum: Merriam-Webster
  2. Herculaneum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Herculaneum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Herculaneum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Herculaneum: Vocabulary.com
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  7. Herculaneum: Wiktionary
  8. Herculaneum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. Herculaneum (disambiguation), Herculaneum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  13. herculaneum: FreeDictionary.org
  14. herculaneum: Mnemonic Dictionary
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▸ noun:  (historical) A city in Italy which was entirely destroyed by the same eruption of Vesuvius that also turned Pompeii into a ruin

Similar:
Heraclea, Veientes, Helike, Parthenope, Paestum, Cannae, Empedocles, Veientines, Maleventum, Cumae, more...

Types:
Pompeii, more...

Phrases:
Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum, The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum, Herculaneum papyri, more...

Adjectives:
ancient, nearby, buried, rural, new, mournful, pompeii, same, little, old, longburied

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Similar:
Heraclea, Veientes, Helike, Parthenope, Paestum, Cannae, Empedocles, Veientines, Maleventum, Cumae, more...

Types:
Pompeii, more...

Phrases:
Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum, The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum, Herculaneum papyri, more...

Adjectives:
ancient, nearby, buried, rural, new, mournful, pompeii, same, little, old, longburied



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