ADELAIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Adelaide mean? 

• ADELAIDE (noun)
  The noun ADELAIDE has 1 sense:

1. the state capital of South Australia

  Familiarity information: ADELAIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADELAIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state capital of South Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Holonyms ("Adelaide" is a part of...):

South Australia (a state in south central Australia)

 Context examples 

You are Henry Peters, of Adelaide, late the Rev. Dr. Shlessinger, of Baden and South America.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A reference to the passenger list showed that Miss Fraser, of Adelaide, with her maid had made the voyage in her.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She has had the advantage, you know, of practising on me, she continued—like La Baronne d'Almane on La Comtesse d'Ostalis, in Madame de Genlis' Adelaide and Theodore, and we shall now see her own little Adelaide educated on a more perfect plan.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Research by Ivan Nagelkerken and colleagues at the Environment Institute of the University of Adelaide, in Australia, showed that in high CO2 conditions, barramundi larvae move away from the ocean noises to which they are normally attracted.

(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)

The nature of his tactics suggested his identity to me, and this physical peculiarity—he was badly bitten in a saloon-fight at Adelaide in ’89—confirmed my suspicion.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was enough to drive a woman out of her wits, tied there, and her very dress spotted with him, but she never wanted courage, did Miss Mary Fraser of Adelaide and Lady Brackenstall of Abbey Grange hasn’t learned new ways.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)