Tripoli: Meaning and Definition of

Trip•o•li

1. one of the former Barbary States of N Africa: later a province of Turkey; now a part of Libya.
2. a seaport in and the capital of Libya, in the NW part. 551,477.
3. a seaport in N Lebanon, on the Mediterranean. 175,000.
4. (l.c.) any of several siliceous substances, as rottenstone and infusorial earth, used chiefly in polishing.