FLORENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Florence mean? 

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

1. a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries

2. a town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center

  Familiarity information: FLORENCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLORENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Firenze; Florence

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (members of "Florence"):

Florentine (a native or resident of Florence, Italy)

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

Toscana; Tuscany (a region in central Italy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina (a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

Florence is among the largest near-Earth asteroids that are several miles is size; measurements from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and NEOWISE mission indicate it’s about 2.7 miles (4.4 kilometers) in size.

(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)

Radar images discovered that Florence has two small moons.

(Biggest Asteroid Ever Detected Flies Past Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For ten long years I roved about, living first in one capital, then another: sometimes in St. Petersburg; oftener in Paris; occasionally in Rome, Naples, and Florence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Now Florence's mama hadn't a particle of taste, and Amy suffered deeply at having to wear a red instead of a blue bonnet, unbecoming gowns, and fussy aprons that did not fit.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

For three hurricane seasons in a row, storms with record-breaking rainfall have caused catastrophic flooding in the southern United States: Harvey in 2017, Florence in 2018 and Imelda in 2019.

(Why are big storms bringing so much more rain?, National Science Foundation)

Some wine, Tita, from the Florence flask!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two teams of astronomers, one from INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri in Florence, Italy and the second from Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands and from University College London, United Kingdom, have harnessed the power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to detect the prebiotic complex organic molecule methyl isocyanate in the multiple star system IRAS 16293-2422.

(ALMA Finds Ingredient of Life Around Infant Sun-like Stars, ESO)

I took to my heels, did ten miles over the mountains in the darkness, and a week later I found myself in Florence, with the certainty that no one in the world knew what had become of me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus, in addition to the cousins Dorothy and Florence, Martin encountered two university professors, one of Latin, the other of English; a young army officer just back from the Philippines, one-time school-mate of Ruth's; a young fellow named Melville, private secretary to Joseph Perkins, head of the San Francisco Trust Company; and finally of the men, a live bank cashier, Charles Hapgood, a youngish man of thirty-five, graduate of Stanford University, member of the Nile Club and the Unity Club, and a conservative speaker for the Republican Party during campaigns—in short, a rising young man in every way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on Sept. 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles, (7.0 million kilometers, or about 18 Earth-Moon distances).

(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)