MAGNUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnum mean? 

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

1. a large wine bottle for liquor or wine

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large wine bottle for liquor or wine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("magnum" is a kind of...):

wine bottle (a bottle for holding wine)

 Context examples 

Exactly, Watson. Here is the fruit of my leisured ease, the magnum opus of my latter years!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A meningioma that affects the foramen magnum.

(Foramen Magnum Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A sloped depression between the dorsum sellae and foramen magnum at the base of the skull.

(Clivus, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare genetic brain malformation characterized by displacement of the brain stem and cerebellum through the foramen magnum.

(Arnold-Chiari Malformation, NCI Thesaurus)

A meningioma that affects the anterior foramen magnum.

(Anterior Foramen Magnum Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

The anterior aspect of the foramen magnum formed by the basilar part of the occipital bone.

(Anterior Foramen Magnum, NCI Thesaurus)