CARLSBAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carlsbad mean? 

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

1. a town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border; potash deposits

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARLSBAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border; potash deposits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM (a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border)

 Context examples 

It is in a German-speaking country—in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. ‘Remarkable as being the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous glass-factories and paper-mills.’ Ha, ha, my boy, what do you make of that?

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