LACONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Laconia mean? 

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

1. an ancient region of southern Greece in the southeastern Peloponnesus; dominated by Sparta

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LACONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient region of southern Greece in the southeastern Peloponnesus; dominated by Sparta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (members of "Laconia"):

Laconian (a resident of Laconia)

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

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)

 Context examples 

Nobody could do it, but that good fellow (pointing to Captain Wentworth.) The Laconia had come into Plymouth the week before; no danger of her being sent to sea again.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Ah! those were pleasant days when I had the Laconia!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And so then, I suppose, said Mrs Musgrove, in a low voice, as if thinking aloud, so then he went away to the Laconia, and there he met with our poor boy.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Tell me if, when I returned to England in the year eight, with a few thousand pounds, and was posted into the Laconia, if I had then written to you, would you have answered my letter?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He had been several years at sea, and had, in the course of those removals to which all midshipmen are liable, and especially such midshipmen as every captain wishes to get rid of, been six months on board Captain Frederick Wentworth's frigate, the Laconia; and from the Laconia he had, under the influence of his captain, written the only two letters which his father and mother had ever received from him during the whole of his absence; that is to say, the only two disinterested letters; all the rest had been mere applications for money.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Captain Benwick had some time ago been first lieutenant of the Laconia; and the account which Captain Wentworth had given of him, on his return from Lyme before, his warm praise of him as an excellent young man and an officer, whom he had always valued highly, which must have stamped him well in the esteem of every listener, had been followed by a little history of his private life, which rendered him perfectly interesting in the eyes of all the ladies.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The girls were now hunting for the Laconia; and Captain Wentworth could not deny himself the pleasure of taking the precious volume into his own hands to save them the trouble, and once more read aloud the little statement of her name and rate, and present non-commissioned class, observing over it that she too had been one of the best friends man ever had.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)