MELBOURNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Melbourne mean? 

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

1. a resort town in east central Florida

2. the capital of Victoria state and 2nd largest Australian city; a financial and commercial center

  Familiarity information: MELBOURNE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MELBOURNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A resort town in east central Florida

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The capital of Victoria state and 2nd largest Australian city; a financial and commercial center

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

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

Victoria (a state in southeastern Australia)

 Context examples 

Provider: ES Cell International Pte Ltd., Melbourne, Australia.

(ES01, NCI Thesaurus)

One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and we lay in wait for it and attacked it.

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

Researchers from the University of Granada and RMIT University in Melbourne have developed personalised and low-cost wearable ultraviolet (UV) sensors that warn users when their exposure to the sun has become dangerous.

(New wristband provides personalised and real-time tracking of UV exposure, University of Granada)

The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the congratulatory visits on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Lead researcher Justin Boddey from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and University of Melbourne says, We have built on our previous studies, where we identified in the P. falciparum parasite an enzyme called plasmepsin V, an enzyme essential for the parasite to grow inside red blood cells.

(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)

This particular method was developed by a research team led by RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and it uses a liquid metal electrocatalyst, containing nanoparticles of the rare-earth metal cerium, to convert the greenhouse gas into a stable, coal-like solid.

(Scientists Turn CO2 into Solid Coal, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)