GEORGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Georgia mean? 

• GEORGIA (noun)
  The noun GEORGIA has 3 senses:

1. a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

2. one of the British colonies that formed the United States

3. a republic in Asia Minor on the Black Sea separated from Russia by the Caucasus mountains; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991

  Familiarity information: GEORGIA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEORGIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Georgia"):

Oxford (a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner)

Atlanta; capital of Georgia (state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War)

Savannah (a port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river)

Valdosta (a town in southern Georgia near the Florida border)

Vidalia (a town in central Georgia; the origin of Vidalia onions)

Chattahoochee; Chattahoochee River (a river rising in northern Georgia and flowing southwest and south to join the Flint River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River)

Coosa; Coosa River (river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River)

Flint; Flint River (a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River)

Okefenokee Swamp (a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia)

Tallapoosa; Tallapoosa River (river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River)

Macon (a city in central Georgia to the southeast of Atlanta)

Augusta (a city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah; noted for golf tournaments)

Athens (a university town in northeast Georgia)

Albany (a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans)

Domain member region:

Kennesaw Mountain (battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston)

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

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

Deep South (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)

Holonyms ("Georgia" is a member of...):

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)

Derivation:

Georgian (of or relating to or characteristic of the American state of Georgia or its inhabitants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the British colonies that formed the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A republic in Asia Minor on the Black Sea separated from Russia by the Caucasus mountains; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Georgia; Sakartvelo

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Georgia"):

capital of Georgia; Tbilisi; Tiflis (the capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river)

Abkhaz; Abkhazia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability)

Adzhar; Adzharia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea)

Meronyms (members of "Georgia"):

Georgian (a native or inhabitant of Georgia in Asia)

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

Transcaucasia (a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan)

Holonyms ("Georgia" is a member of...):

CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)

Derivation:

Georgian (of or relating to or characteristic of the Asian republic of Georgia or its people or language)

 Context examples 

"People with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering," said Eric Schumacher, the Georgia Tech associate psychology professor.

(Daydreaming Is Good: It Means You're Smart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The new technology, resulting from a study led by the Georgia Institute of Technology, shows high potential as the basis for an inexpensive, easy malnutrition test in the field.

(Test for life-threatening nutrient deficit is made from bacteria entrails, National Science Foundation)

A female brain's resident immune cells are more active in regions involved in pain processing relative to males, according to a recent study by Georgia State University researchers.

(Why Women May Feel More Pain Than Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"The hyperbolic paraboloid is a striking pattern that has been used in architectural designs the world over," said Glaucio Paulino of Georgia Tech.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)

Then he sealed it and addressed it to “Captain James Calhoun, Barque Lone Star, Savannah, Georgia.”

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

Researchers from the Georgia Prevention Institute at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, found that arterial stiffness was improved by vitamin D supplementation in a dose-response manner in this population.

(High Doses of Vitamin D Rapidly Reduce Arterial Stiffness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists at Georgia State University investigated whether dietary emulsifiers might affect the risk for colorectal cancer by altering the gut microbiota.

(Food additives promote inflammation, colon cancer in mice, National Institutes of Health)

That could soon change, according to new simulations conducted by a team at Vanderbilt University, Georgia Tech, California Institute of Technology, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on what's next for gravitational wave astronomy.

(Observing 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomy, National Science Foundation)

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology say the moon’s non-silicate sand is “electrically charged” and “resistant to motion.”

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

A nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization, the largest private source of cancer research funds in the U.S. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the ACS has state divisions and more than 3,400 local offices.

(American Cancer Society, NCI Thesaurus)