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ARLINGTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arlington mean? 

ARLINGTON (noun)
  The noun ARLINGTON has 1 sense:

1. a city in northern Texas between Dallas and Fort Worthplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ARLINGTON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in northern Texas between Dallas and Fort Worth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)


 Context examples 


At the corner of Arlington Street our contingent got out and strolled into the Green Park.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Thanks, in part, to pigs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Arlington Agricultural Research Station, scientists now are catching up on understanding the roots of calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD).

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)



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