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DALLAS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Dallas mean?
• DALLAS (noun)
The noun DALLAS has 1 sense:
1. a large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields
Familiarity information: DALLAS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields
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 ("Dallas" is a part of...):
Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)
Context examples
Scientists from The University of Texas at Dallas and Hanyang University in South Korea developed high-tech yarns that generate electricity when they are stretched or twisted.
(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Dr David Meltzer, from the Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, said: A striking thing about the analysis of Spirit Cave and Lagoa Santa is their close genetic similarity which implies their ancestral population travelled through the continent at astonishing speed.
(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)
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