FARMINGTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Farmington mean? 

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

1. a town in northwestern New Mexico

2. a residential town in central Connecticut

  Familiarity information: FARMINGTON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARMINGTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in northwestern New Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM (a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A residential town in central Connecticut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Connecticut; Constitution State; CT; Ct.; Nutmeg State (a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

Investigators at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, and their collaborators discovered a subtype of T cell (link is external)s—called T follicular helper cell 13, or Tfh13 cells — in laboratory mice bred to have a rare genetic immune disease called DOCK8 immunodeficiency syndrome.

(Scientists discover immune cell subtype in mice that drives allergic reactions, National Institutes of Health)