D.C.

 Dictionary entry overview: What does D.C. mean? 

• D.C. (noun)
  The noun D.C. has 1 sense:

1. the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia

  Familiarity information: D.C. used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• D.C. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

D.C.; DC; District of Columbia

Instance hypernyms:

federal district (a district set apart as the seat of government of a federation)

Meronyms (parts of "D.C."):

American capital; capital of the United States; Washington; Washington D.C. (the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791)

Holonyms ("D.C." is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

 Context examples 

The will was holograph, for Mr. Utterson though he took charge of it now that it was made, had refused to lend the least assistance in the making of it; it provided not only that, in case of the decease of Henry Jekyll, M.D., D.C.L., L.L.D., F.R.S., etc., all his possessions were to pass into the hands of his friend and benefactor Edward Hyde, but that in case of Dr. Jekyll’s disappearance or unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months, the said Edward Hyde should step into the said Henry Jekyll’s shoes without further delay and free from any burthen or obligation beyond the payment of a few small sums to the members of the doctor’s household.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)