GUERNSEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Guernsey mean? 

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

1. a Channel Island to the northwest of Jersey

2. breed of dairy cattle from the island of Guernsey

  Familiarity information: GUERNSEY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUERNSEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Channel Island to the northwest of Jersey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Guernsey; island of Guernsey

Hypernyms ("Guernsey" is a kind of...):

Channel Island (any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Breed of dairy cattle from the island of Guernsey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Guernsey" is a kind of...):

dairy cattle; dairy cow; milch cow; milcher; milk cow; milker (cattle that are reared for their milk)

 Context examples 

Master Micawber was hardly visible in a Guernsey shirt, and the shaggiest suit of slops I ever saw; and the children were done up, like preserved meats, in impervious cases.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)