BIRMINGHAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Birmingham mean? 

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

1. the largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern Alabama

2. a city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center

  Familiarity information: BIRMINGHAM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIRMINGHAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern Alabama

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Birmingham; Pittsburgh of the South

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Birmingham; Brummagem

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Why had he sent me from London to Birmingham?

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

Researchers from the University of Bath and the University of Birmingham looked at 30 obese or overweight men.

(Exercise before Breakfast Burns More Fat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"Tip-of-the-tongue moments are very noticeable. They are irritating and embarrassing," said lead researcher Katrien Segaert, a psychology lecturer at the University of Birmingham in England.

(Exercise May Help Seniors with Word, Memory Problems, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

One has not great hopes from Birmingham.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Harald Sontheimer, Ph.D., from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and his colleagues investigated the interactions between glioblastoma cells, astrocytes and cerebral blood vessels.

(Brain tumor invasion along blood vessels may lead to new cancer treatments, NIH)

You’re right there, Jack ’Arrison. ’E was one of the three who came up to fight when the best men of Birmingham challenged the best men of London. ’E’s an evergreen, is Tom.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The team of researchers – from the Universities of Cambridge, Birmingham, New York and Leiden – say their findings highlight a pressing need for greater support for couples before, during and after pregnancy to improve outcomes for children.

(Prenatal parental stress linked to behaviour problems in toddlers, University of Cambridge)

It is not the object of this work to give a description of Derbyshire, nor of any of the remarkable places through which their route thither lay; Oxford, Blenheim, Warwick, Kenilworth, Birmingham, etc. are sufficiently known.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The purchase will be completed in a week, and meanwhile you will remain in Birmingham and make yourself useful.

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

They came from Birmingham, which is not a place to promise much, you know, Mr. Weston.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)