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DARTMOUTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Dartmouth mean?
• DARTMOUTH (noun)
The noun DARTMOUTH has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: DARTMOUTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A college in New Hampshire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
Dartmouth; Dartmouth College
Instance hypernyms:
college (a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed)
Holonyms ("Dartmouth" is a part of...):
Granite State; N.H.; New Hampshire; NH (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)
Holonyms ("Dartmouth" is a member of...):
Ivy League (a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige)
Context examples
"Contrary to popular belief, apologies don't soften the blow of rejections," says Dr. Gili Freedman, lead author of this study, currently based at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The center is affiliated with The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.
(Norris Cotton Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Here came the merchandise of all the fair countries which are watered by the Garonne and the Dordogne—the cloths of the south, the skins of Guienne, the wines of the Medoc—to be borne away to Hull, Exeter, Dartmouth, Bristol or Chester, in exchange for the wools and woolfels of England.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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