CLEVELAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cleveland mean? 

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

1. the largest city in Ohio; located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie; a major Great Lakes port

2. 22nd and 24th President of the United States (1837-1908)

  Familiarity information: CLEVELAND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEVELAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest city in Ohio; located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie; a major Great Lakes port

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)

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

22nd and 24th President of the United States (1837-1908)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cleveland; Grover Cleveland; President Cleveland; Stephen Grover Cleveland

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

 Context examples 

Will you come and spend some time at Cleveland this Christmas?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The Center has partnerships with Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, and MetroHealth Medical Center; and became an NCI-designated cancer center in 1987.

(Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Last month, a scale model of the QueSST design completed testing in the 8-by 6-foot supersonic wind tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

(NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane, NASA)

"This is a game changer in our understanding of human evolution during the Pliocene (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago)," said Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator, Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

(3.8-million-year-old fossil cranium unveils more about human ancestry, National Science Foundation)

“I’ve my light curricle and two new mares—half thorough-bred, half Cleveland bay.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

National Institutes of Health scientists and collaborators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, have detected abnormal prion protein in the skin of nearly two dozen people who died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

(NIH scientists and collaborators find infectious prion protein in skin of CJD patients, National Institutes of Health)

In this laboratory study, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic, the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston introduced ZIKV to glioblastoma tissue samples removed from cancer patients as part of their treatment, as well as to healthy human neural tissue cultures.

(Zika virus selectively infects and kills glioblastoma cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)

Mrs. Jennings was so far from being weary of her guests, that she pressed them very earnestly to return with her again from Cleveland.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"No, I cannot go to Cleveland."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The morning was fine and dry, and Marianne, in her plan of employment abroad, had not calculated for any change of weather during their stay at Cleveland.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)