JOHANNESBURG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Johannesburg mean? 

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

1. city in the northeastern part of South Africa near Pretoria; commercial center for diamond and gold industries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOHANNESBURG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

City in the northeastern part of South Africa near Pretoria; commercial center for diamond and gold industries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Republic of South Africa; South Africa (a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers))

 Context examples 

They said that my uncle was a friend of theirs, that he had died some months before in great poverty in Johannesburg, and that he had asked them with his last breath to hunt up his relations, and see that they were in no want.

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

I begin to think so, Mr. Holmes, but when I thought of all the precaution I had taken to shield this girl—for I loved her, Mr. Holmes, and it is the only time that ever I knew what love was—it fairly drove me mad to think that she was in the power of the greatest brute and bully in South Africa—a man whose name is a holy terror from Kimberley to Johannesburg.

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