CUMBERLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cumberland mean? 

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

1. English general; son of George II; fought unsuccessfully in the battle of Fontenoy (1721-1765)

2. a river that rises in southeastern Kentucky and flows westward through northern Tennessee to become a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Kentucky

  Familiarity information: CUMBERLAND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUMBERLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English general; son of George II; fought unsuccessfully in the battle of Fontenoy (1721-1765)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Butcher Cumberland; Cumberland; Duke of Cumberland; William Augustus

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A river that rises in southeastern Kentucky and flows westward through northern Tennessee to become a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Kentucky

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Cumberland; Cumberland River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

Bluegrass State; Ken.; Kentucky; KY (a state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses)

Tenn.; Tennessee; TN; Volunteer State (a state in east central United States)

 Context examples 

I was not new to violent death—I have served his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, and got a wound myself at Fontenoy—but I know my pulse went dot and carry one.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

From Derby, still journeying northwards, we passed two months in Cumberland and Westmorland.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Curiosity also detected different Martian organic chemicals in powder drilled from a rock dubbed Cumberland, the first definitive detection of organics in surface materials of Mars.

(Curiosity Detects Methane Spike on Mars, NASA)

—him vot told the old Dook of Cumberland that all he vanted vas to fight the King o’ Proosia’s guard, day by day, year in, year out, until ’e ’ad worked out the whole regiment of ’em—and the smallest of ’em six foot long.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The team found evidence for nitrates in scooped samples of windblown sand and dust at the Rocknest site, and in samples drilled from mudstone at the John Klein and Cumberland drill sites in Yellowknife Bay.

(Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars, NASA)

She was not allowed much time for meditation: a monitor, a great rough girl, presently came up, exclaiming in a strong Cumberland accent—Helen Burns, if you don't go and put your drawer in order, and fold up your work this minute, I'll tell Miss Scatcherd to come and look at it!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The room was most dear to her, and she would not have changed its furniture for the handsomest in the house, though what had been originally plain had suffered all the ill-usage of children; and its greatest elegancies and ornaments were a faded footstool of Julia's work, too ill done for the drawing-room, three transparencies, made in a rage for transparencies, for the three lower panes of one window, where Tintern Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy and a moonlight lake in Cumberland, a collection of family profiles, thought unworthy of being anywhere else, over the mantelpiece, and by their side, and pinned against the wall, a small sketch of a ship sent four years ago from the Mediterranean by William, with H.M.S. Antwerp at the bottom, in letters as tall as the mainmast.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We had scarcely visited the various lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland and conceived an affection for some of the inhabitants when the period of our appointment with our Scotch friend approached, and we left them to travel on.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Researchers also reported that Curiosity's taste of Martian water, bound into lakebed minerals in the Cumberland rock more than three billion years ago, indicates the planet lost much of its water before that lakebed formed and continued to lose large amounts after.

(Curiosity Detects Methane Spike on Mars, NASA)

In this expedition we did not intend to follow the great road to Edinburgh, but to visit Windsor, Oxford, Matlock, and the Cumberland lakes, resolving to arrive at the completion of this tour about the end of July.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)