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/pˈɛntɪgˌɑn/ /pˈɛnɪgˌɑn/ Listen

Pentagon

noun

A government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.

The United States military establishment.

A five-sided polygon.

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... was now close at hand. It was an irregular pentagon, and at places two, at others three stories high. With one single exception these stories formed terraces, retreating successively from the ground to the top like so many steps of a staircase. Nowhere did there appear any entrance. Notched beams led up to trapdoors in the ...

— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier

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Words linked to "Pentagon" : armed services, military machine, polygon, military, government building, armed forces, bureaucracy, polygonal shape, war machine, bureaucratism