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EDMONTON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Edmonton mean?
• EDMONTON (noun)
The noun EDMONTON has 1 sense:
1. the capital of the province of Alberta
Familiarity information: EDMONTON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital of the province of Alberta
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
provincial capital (the capital city of a province)
Holonyms ("Edmonton" is a part of...):
Alberta (one of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals)
Context examples
Wily and bold, he and his companion threw their pursuer off their track by entering a lodging-house in Edmonton Street and leaving by the back-gate into Curzon Square.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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