KINGSTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kingston mean? 

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

1. a town on the Hudson River in New York

2. a town in southeast Ontario on Lake Ontario near the head of the Saint Lawrence River

3. capital and largest city of Jamaica

  Familiarity information: KINGSTON used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINGSTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town on the Hudson River in New York

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A town in southeast Ontario on Lake Ontario near the head of the Saint Lawrence River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Ontario (a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Capital and largest city of Jamaica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Jamaica; Jamaican capital; Kingston

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Jamaica (a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism)

 Context examples 

'Can I do any thing for you at Kingston?' said he; so I just mentioned....

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Presently the words Jamaica, Kingston, Spanish Town, indicated the West Indies as his residence; and it was with no little surprise I gathered, ere long, that he had there first seen and become acquainted with Mr. Rochester.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I must get on to Kingston as fast as I can.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Cole was saying the other day she wanted something from Kingston.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He was so busy the last time he was at Kingston that he quite forgot it, but he goes again to-morrow.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He cut her short with, I am going to Kingston.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He is in Highbury every now and then, and he is sure to ride through every week in his way to Kingston.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He is going to Kingston.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Oh! dear, Kingston—are you?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)