GENOA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Genoa mean? 

• GENOA (noun)
  The noun GENOA has 1 sense:

1. a seaport in northwestern Italy; provincial capital of Liguria

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENOA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A seaport in northwestern Italy; provincial capital of Liguria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Genoa; Genova

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (members of "Genoa"):

Genoese (a native or resident of Genoa)

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

Liguria (region of northwestern Italy on the Ligurian Sea)

 Context examples 

When we were watching Massena, off Genoa, we got a matter of seventy schooners, brigs, and tartans, with wine, food, and powder.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is the red cross of Genoa.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the letter telling that Beth was failing never reached Amy, and when the next found her at Vevay, for the heat had driven them from Nice in May, and they had travelled slowly to Switzerland, by way of Genoa and the Italian lakes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“They carry caviare and certain very noble spices from the Levant aboard of ships from Genoa,” quoth Sir Oliver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Straightway my uncle began to question him about the sea service, and for the whole meal my father was telling him of the Nile and of the Toulon blockade, and the siege of Genoa, and all that he had seen and done.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I doubt not that if I set you down in my shop at Norwich you might scarce tell fustian from falding, and know little difference between the velvet of Genoa and the three-piled cloth of Bruges.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From thence, as a reward for his services, he was transferred as first lieutenant to the Aurora frigate, engaged in cutting off supplies from Genoa, and in her he still remained until long after peace was declared.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)