ATHENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Athens mean? 

• ATHENS (noun)
  The noun ATHENS has 3 senses:

1. the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)

2. a town in southeast Ohio

3. a university town in northeast Georgia

  Familiarity information: ATHENS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATHENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Athens; Athinai; capital of Greece; Greek capital

Context example:

in the 5th century BC ancient Athens was the world's most powerful and civilized city

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Athens"):

Parthenon (the main temple of the goddess Athena; built on the acropolis in Athens more than 400 years B.C.; example of Doric architecture)

Areopagus (a hill to the to the west of the Athenian acropolis where met the highest governmental council of ancient Athens and later a judicial court)

Dipylon; Dipylon gate (a gateway to the west of ancient Athens near which a distinctive style of pottery has been found)

Meronyms (members of "Athens"):

Athenian (a resident of Athens)

Plato (ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC))

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

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)

Derivation:

Athenian (of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its inhabitants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A town in southeast Ohio

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Buckeye State; OH; Ohio (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)

Derivation:

Athenian (of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its inhabitants)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A university town in northeast Georgia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Derivation:

Athenian (of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its inhabitants)

 Context examples 

Her friends, shocked at the event, had contented themselves with informing her brother at Athens, and had then washed their hands of the matter.

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

The clinical trial involved 64 children from Athens in Greece, aged 5 to 12 who had mild asthma.

(Fish-Rich Diet Beneficial for Children with Asthma, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Provider: BresaGen, Inc., Athens, GA.

(BG01, NCI Thesaurus)

A wire to the head of the Athens police, then?

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

‘Anybody supplying any information to the whereabouts of a Greek gentleman named Paul Kratides, from Athens, who is unable to speak English, will be rewarded.

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

Athens, perhaps.

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

Athens.

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