HALIFAX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Halifax mean? 

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

1. provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALIFAX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

provincial capital (the capital city of a province)

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

Nova Scotia (the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns)

 Context examples 

I sent a line from Halifax, when I felt pretty miserable, but after that I got on delightfully, seldom ill, on deck all day, with plenty of pleasant people to amuse me.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Its capital is Halifax.

(Nova Scotia, NCI Thesaurus)

“I have been a governess for five years,” said she, “in the family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his children over to America with him, so that I found myself without a situation.

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