LIVERPOOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Liverpool mean? 

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

1. a large city in northwestern England; its port is the country's major outlet for industrial exports

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVERPOOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large city in northwestern England; its port is the country's major outlet for industrial exports

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)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Meronyms (members of "Liverpool"):

Liverpudlian; Scouser (a native or resident of Liverpool)

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

Liverpudlian (of or relating to Liverpool or its people)

 Context examples 

He was to reach Liverpool Street at one-twenty.

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

She is gone down to her uncle at Liverpool: gone to stay.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And here at my elbow is another portrait, taken at Liverpool, of your younger sister, in the company of a man who appears to be a steward by his uniform.

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

He then made ready for his departure, and shortly after drove off to Liverpool Street.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We only stopped at Liverpool a few hours.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Charles Wondji, a mosquito geneticist at the School of Tropical Medicine in Liverpool, England, notes that resistance to pyrethroid insecticides occurred rapidly, in about eight years.

(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)

In collaboration with the researchers from Liverpool John Moore University, the UGR researchers used statistical techniques to analyse the full kinematics curves, based on tracing point trajectories.

(Researchers identify the maximum weight that children should carry in their school backpacks, University of Granada)

I took leave of my wife, and boy and girl, with tears on both sides, and went on board the Adventure, a merchant ship of three hundred tons, bound for Surat, captain John Nicholas, of Liverpool, commander.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But I am mate, now, and when I pay off at ’Frisco, maybe with five hundred dollars, I will ship myself on a windjammer round the Horn to Liverpool, which will give me more money; and then I will pay my passage from there home.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His business in Antigua had latterly been prosperously rapid, and he came directly from Liverpool, having had an opportunity of making his passage thither in a private vessel, instead of waiting for the packet; and all the little particulars of his proceedings and events, his arrivals and departures, were most promptly delivered, as he sat by Lady Bertram and looked with heartfelt satisfaction on the faces around him—interrupting himself more than once, however, to remark on his good fortune in finding them all at home—coming unexpectedly as he did—all collected together exactly as he could have wished, but dared not depend on.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)