EDINBURGH

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

1. the capital of Scotland; located in the Lothian Region on the south side of the Firth of Forth

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDINBURGH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital of Scotland; located in the Lothian Region on the south side of the Firth of Forth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Lothian Region (a district in southeast central Scotland (south side of the Firth of Forth) and the location of Edinburgh)

 Context examples 

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh examined donated ovarian tissue from fourteen female cancer patients, most of whom had Hodgkin lymphoma, and compared it to tissue from healthy women.

(Chemotherapy cocktail may cause adult women to grow new egg cells, Wikinews)

I visited Edinburgh with languid eyes and mind; and yet that city might have interested the most unfortunate being.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Symptoms of opposition had been evident from time to time during the evening, and now Dr. James Illingworth, of Edinburgh, rose in the center of the hall.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While it was conducted with gold nanoparticles, the researchers from University of Edinburgh, UK, believe that the results can be extended to nanoparticles in vehicle exhaust.

(Nanoparticles raise vascular risk by escaping the lungs, SciDev.Net)

He was the usual cut and dry apothecary, of no particular age and colour, with a strong Edinburgh accent and about as emotional as a bagpipe.

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

There’s over 100 bones there, so a whole bunch of the skeleton, and now we get to get down to the fun business of actually studying it, figuring out what it is, said Stephen Brusatte, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh.

(Sea Monster Swam Oceans 170 Million Years Ago, Voanews)

So a team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh set out to examine the association between intelligence test scores measured at age 11 and leading causes of death in men and women up to age 79.

(Higher IQ in Childhood Linked to Longer Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Two international teams of scientists led by Tim Miller from Dalhousie University in Canada and Yale University in the US and Iván Oteo from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, have uncovered startlingly dense concentrations of galaxies that are poised to merge, forming the cores of what will eventually become colossal galaxy clusters.

(Ancient Galaxy Megamergers, ESO)

Using Trojan horses to combat cancer from within the tumour cells themselves without damaging healthy tissues is the aim of this new tool created by researchers from the University of Granada (UGR), the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA), the University of Zaragoza, and the Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)

Something of the sort is to be seen in Salisbury Crags at Edinburgh.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)