GEORGETOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Georgetown mean? 

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

1. a section of northwestern Washington, D.C.

2. port city and the capital and largest city of Guyana

  Familiarity information: GEORGETOWN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEORGETOWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A section of northwestern Washington, D.C.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)

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

American capital; capital of the United States; Washington; Washington D.C. (the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Port city and the capital and largest city of Guyana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Georgetown; Stabroek

Context example:

the city was called Stabroek by the Dutch but was renamed Georgetown by the British in 1812

Instance hypernyms:

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

British Guiana; Co-operative Republic of Guyana; Guyana (a republic in northeastern South America; formerly part of the British Empire, but it achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966)

 Context examples 

Max Riesenhuber's group at Georgetown University had previously studied how the brain categorizes visual objects and found that at least two distinct regions of the brain were involved.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)

The Cancer Center is part of Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

(Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Dr. Howard Federoff of Georgetown University Medical Center and his colleagues decided to search for biomarkers of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease in circulating blood.

(Study Points to Possible Blood Test For Memory Decline, Alzheimer’s, NIH)

The mission of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer through innovative basic science, clinical research, patient care, community outreach, and the training of cancer specialists of the future.

(Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)