LUXEMBOURG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Luxembourg mean? 

• LUXEMBOURG (noun)
  The noun LUXEMBOURG has 2 senses:

1. the capital and largest city of Luxembourg

2. a grand duchy (a constitutional monarchy) landlocked in northwestern Europe between France and Belgium and Germany; an international financial center

  Familiarity information: LUXEMBOURG used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUXEMBOURG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Luxembourg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Luxembourg; Luxembourg; Luxembourg-Ville; Luxembourg City; Luxemburg

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; Luxembourg; Luxemburg (a grand duchy (a constitutional monarchy) landlocked in northwestern Europe between France and Belgium and Germany; an international financial center)

Derivation:

Luxembourger (a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A grand duchy (a constitutional monarchy) landlocked in northwestern Europe between France and Belgium and Germany; an international financial center

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; Luxembourg; Luxemburg

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Luxembourg"):

capital of Luxembourg; Luxembourg; Luxembourg-Ville; Luxembourg City; Luxemburg (the capital and largest city of Luxembourg)

Meronyms (members of "Luxembourg"):

Luxembourger; Luxemburger (a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg)

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

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Holonyms ("Luxembourg" is a member of...):

Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)

NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)

Benelux (a customs union comprising Belgium and Netherlands and Luxembourg)

Derivation:

Luxembourger (a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg)

Luxembourgian (relating to or characteristic of Luxembourg)

 Context examples 

We often walk in the Tuileries Gardens, for they are lovely, though the antique Luxembourg Gardens suit me better.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We have to follow the example of Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Greece.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

In the meantime we shall treat ourselves to a couple of carpet-bags, encourage the manufactures of the countries through which we travel, and make our way at our leisure into Switzerland, via Luxembourg and Basle.

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