ATLANTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Atlanta mean? 

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

1. state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War

2. a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864

  Familiarity information: ATLANTA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATLANTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

State capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Atlanta; capital of Georgia

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Atlanta"):

CDC; Center for Disease Control and Prevention (a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases))

Domain member region:

Atlanta; battle of Atlanta (a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864)

Holonyms ("Atlanta" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Atlanta; battle of Atlanta

Instance hypernyms:

beleaguering; besieging; military blockade; siege (the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack)

Domain region:

Atlanta; capital of Georgia (state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War)

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

American Civil War; United States Civil War; War between the States (civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865)

 Context examples 

A nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization, the largest private source of cancer research funds in the U.S. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the ACS has state divisions and more than 3,400 local offices.

(American Cancer Society, NCI Thesaurus)

That is John Hebron, of Atlanta, said the lady, and a nobler man never walked the earth.

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

Its capital is Atlanta.

(Georgia, NCI Thesaurus)

In the current study, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Emory University in Atlanta explored the potential genetic foundation of this behavior, which can appear by the first 6 months of age and persist as children grow older.

(Children’s visual engagement is heritable and altered in autism, National Institutes of Health)

Laurie reached the goal first and was quite satisfied with the success of his treatment, for his Atlanta came panting up with flying hair, bright eyes, ruddy cheeks, and no signs of dissatisfaction in her face.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“You have forced me, against my own judgment, to tell you, and now we must both make the best of it. My husband died at Atlanta. My child survived.”

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

She went out to America when she was young, and lived in the town of Atlanta, where she married this Hebron, who was a lawyer with a good practice.

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

No; there was a great fire at Atlanta very shortly after his death, and all her papers were destroyed.

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