EUGENE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eugene mean? 

• EUGENE (noun)
  The noun EUGENE has 2 senses:

1. Austrian general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the Spanish Succession (1663-1736)

2. a city in western Oregon on the Willamette River; site of a university

  Familiarity information: EUGENE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUGENE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Austrian general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the Spanish Succession (1663-1736)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Eugene; Prince Eugene of Savoy

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city in western Oregon on the Willamette River; site of a university

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

Beaver State; OR; Ore.; Oregon (a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific)

 Context examples 

This study shows that repetitive sequences, which are ‘hotspots’ of DNA evolution, emerge early in tumor evolution but fade away in later phases, particularly during the transition to metastatic states, though they leave clear marks in the genome, said Eugene Koonin, Ph.D., a co-author of the study and head of NLM’s Evolutionary Genomics Research Group.

(Researchers uncover role of repetitive DNA and protein sequences in tumor evolution, National Institutes of Health)