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pentagon noun. L16.
[French pentagone or late Latin pentagonum from Greek pentagonon use as noun of neut. of adjective pentagonos, formed as PENTA-: see -GON.]
A plane figure with five straight sides and five angles. Also, a fort with five bastions. L16.
the Pentagon, a pentagonal building in Washington, D., used as the headquarters of the US Department of Defense; allus. the leadership of the US military. M20.
J. Barth I can't stop the Pentagon from making and deploying the neutron bomb.
Pentagon'ese noun the style of language supposedly characteristic of the leadership of the US military M20.
Penta'gonian noun a person who works in the Pentagon M20.