ARAGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aragon mean? 

• ARAGON (noun)
  The noun ARAGON has 2 senses:

1. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982)

2. a region of northeastern Spain; a former kingdom that united with Castile in 1479 to form Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand V and Isabella I)

  Familiarity information: ARAGON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARAGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Aragon; Louis Aragon

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A region of northeastern Spain; a former kingdom that united with Castile in 1479 to form Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand V and Isabella I)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

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

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

 Context examples 

I see the guidons of Albornez, Cacorla, Rodriguez, Tavora, with the two great orders, and the knights of France and of Aragon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Using Trojan horses to combat cancer from within the tumour cells themselves without damaging healthy tissues is the aim of this new tool created by researchers from the University of Granada (UGR), the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA), the University of Zaragoza, and the Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)

But I am a caballero of Aragon, Don Sancho Penelosa, and, though I be no king, I am yet ready to pay a fitting price for my ransom.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We shall then compel the King of Aragon to place our good friend and brother James of Majorca upon the throne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)