MOUNT VESUVIUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mount Vesuvius mean? 

• MOUNT VESUVIUS (noun)
  The noun MOUNT VESUVIUS has 1 sense:

1. a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944

  Familiarity information: MOUNT VESUVIUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUNT VESUVIUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Mount Vesuvius; Mt. Vesuvius; Vesuvius

Instance hypernyms:

volcano (a mountain formed by volcanic material)

Holonyms ("Mount Vesuvius" is a part of...):

Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)

 Context examples 

“Now, sir,” said my aunt to Mr. Micawber, as she put on her gloves, “we are ready for Mount Vesuvius, or anything else, as soon as YOU please.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I'll partake of no one's hospitality, until I have—a—moved Mount Vesuvius—to eruption—on—a—the abandoned rascal—HEEP!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)