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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 Albertaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


EDMONTON (noun)


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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