KIMBERLEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kimberley mean? 

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

1. city in central South Africa; center for diamond mining and diamond marketing

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KIMBERLEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

City in central South Africa; center for diamond mining and diamond marketing

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 ("Kimberley" 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 

That was the great De Beers Diamond Mine of Kimberley—what?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There have been precious few sightings since, but indigenous wildlife rangers say they have photographed one of the nocturnal, ground-dwelling birds in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

The rover's current location, where multiple types of rocks are exposed close together, is called "the Kimberley."

(NASA Mars Orbiter Spies Rover Near Martian Butte, NASA)

The reasons for why we hiccup are not entirely clear, but there may be a developmental reason, given that fetuses and newborn babies hiccup so frequently, said the study's lead author, research associate Kimberley Whitehead (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology).

(Baby Hiccups Key to Brain Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

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)

Kimberley Whitehead said: Our findings have prompted us to wonder whether hiccups in adults, which appear to be mainly a nuisance, may in fact by a vestigial reflex, left over from infancy when it had an important function.

(Baby Hiccups Key to Brain Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)