DOVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dover mean? 

• DOVER (noun)
  The noun DOVER has 1 sense:

1. the capital of the state of Delaware

  Familiarity information: DOVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital of the state of Delaware

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Delaware; Dover

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

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

DE; Del.; Delaware; Diamond State; First State (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

“I am going to Dover,” I said.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The 22-mile (35-km) journey took 22 minutes with one refueling about halfway to Dover, England.

(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)

By the way, George, I did not see you at the Marchioness of Dover’s ball.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mate says we must be past Straits of Dover, as in a moment of fog lifting he saw North Foreland, just as he heard the man cry out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Its capital is Dover.

(Delaware, NCI Thesaurus)

He spoke of a traveller's house on the Dover Road, where he knew he could find a clean, plain lodging for the night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The flight started at 8:17 a.m. local time (0617 UTC) in Sangatte and finished in St Margaret's at Cliffe near Dover.

(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)

Now, suppose I, who have much of affairs, wish to ship goods, say, to Newcastle, or Durham, or Harwich, or Dover, might it not be that it could with more ease be done by consigning to one in these ports?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At the present moment I lie abed (having stayed late in order to pay a compliment to the Marchioness of Dover at her ball last night), and this is writ to my dictation by Ambrose, my clever rascal of a valet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was greatly pleased, and very merry; and we four, that is to say, my aunt, Mr. Dick, Traddles, and I, went down to Canterbury by the Dover mail that night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)