MONROE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Monroe mean? 

• MONROE (noun)
  The noun MONROE has 4 senses:

1. United States film actress noted for sex appeal (1926-1962)

2. 5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe Doctrine (1758-1831)

3. a town of southeast Michigan on Lake Erie

4. a town in north central Louisiana

  Familiarity information: MONROE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONROE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States film actress noted for sex appeal (1926-1962)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Marilyn Monroe; Monroe; Norma Jean Baker

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe Doctrine (1758-1831)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Monroe; Monroe; President Monroe

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A town of southeast Michigan on Lake Erie

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Great Lakes State; MI; Mich.; Michigan; Wolverine State (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A town in north central Louisiana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

LA; La.; Louisiana; Pelican State (a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

 Context examples 

Cerebrospinal fluid from the lateral ventricles flows into the third ventricle via the foramina of Monroe and exits the third ventricle via the aqueduct of Sylvius.

(Murine Third Ventricle of Brain, NCI Thesaurus)

Cerebrospinal fluid flows from the lateral ventricles into the centrally third ventricle via the foramena of Monroe.

(Murine Lateral Ventricle of Brain, NCI Thesaurus)

Cerebrospinal fluid flows from the lateral ventricles into the centrally third ventricle via the foramen of Monroe.

(Lateral Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)

The power of Treaty may yet prove a vast engine of enlargement, when the Monroe doctrine takes its true place as a political fable.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)