BRISTOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bristol mean? 

• BRISTOL (noun)
  The noun BRISTOL has 1 sense:

1. an industrial city and port in southwestern England near the mouth of the River Avon

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRISTOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An industrial city and port in southwestern England near the mouth of the River Avon

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)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Dr Xu-Hui Jin and colleagues at the University of Bristol developed a new way to make highly ordered crystalline semiconducting structures using polymers.

(Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport, Universities of Cambridge)

Dr Charlie Foster of Bristol University, who chairs the UK chief medical officers’ expert committee for physical activity, said: Find the activity you enjoy the most and stick with it.

(Reduce Risk of Early Death with Any Amount of Running, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I hear that they’ve got some amazin’ good stuff up from Bristol of late.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“This is a map of the Colony of Victoria,” he said. “I wired to Bristol for it last night.”

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

To Winchester, Linn mart, Bristol fair, Stourbridge, and Bartholomew's in London Town.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scientists from the University of Bristol and the Technical University of Denmark have created chip-scale devices that are able to utilize quantum physics to manipulate single particles of light.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“At Bristol, in banks and places,” answered his companion.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Scientists from the University of Bristol and UC Davis say zebras may have gotten their stripes to confuse ectoparasites, such as flies.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)

We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage was at first very prosperous.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The rich brother-in-law near Bristol was the pride of the alliance, and his place and his carriages were the pride of him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)