MONTEVIDEO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Montevideo mean? 

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

1. the capital and largest city of Uruguay; a cosmopolitan city and one of the busiest ports in South America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONTEVIDEO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Uruguay; a cosmopolitan city and one of the busiest ports in South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Uruguay; Montevideo

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Uruguay (a South American republic on the southeast coast of South America; achieved independence from Brazil in 1825)

 Context examples 

Daniel San Vicente, cardiologist and president of the Montevideo regional council of the Medical College of Uruguay, said the current concentration of particles in the air was not enough to have an impact on health.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)