NAPLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Naples mean? 

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

1. a port and tourist center in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAPLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Naples; Napoli

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Meronyms (members of "Naples"):

Neopolitan (a resident of Naples)

Neapolitan (a native or inhabitant of Naples)

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

Campania (a region of southwestern Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea including the islands of Capri and Ischia)

Derivation:

Neapolitan (of or relating to or characteristic of Naples or its people)

 Context examples 

He made his way by sea to Naples, and back, after hearing the narrative to which Miss Dartle had assisted me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I, their eldest child, was born at Naples, and as an infant accompanied them in their rambles.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I have seen your ladyship at Naples.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His name is Pietro Venucci, from Naples, and he is one of the greatest cut-throats in London.

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

“I was born in Posilippo, near Naples,” said she, “and was the daughter of Augusto Barelli, who was the chief lawyer and once the deputy of that part.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For ten long years I roved about, living first in one capital, then another: sometimes in St. Petersburg; oftener in Paris; occasionally in Rome, Naples, and Florence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Thinking, as I did, that he was speaking of our own old Queen Charlotte, I could make no meaning out of this; but my father told me afterwards that both Nelson and Lady Hamilton had conceived an extraordinary affection for the Queen of Naples, and that it was the interests of her little kingdom which he had so strenuously at heart.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Littimer, clearing his throat behind his hand with a respectable short cough, changed legs, and went on: “At last, when there had been, upon the whole, a good many words and reproaches, Mr. James he set off one morning, from the neighbourhood of Naples, where we had a villa (the young woman being very partial to the sea), and, under pretence of coming back in a day or so, left it in charge with me to break it out, that, for the general happiness of all concerned, he was”—here an interruption of the short cough—“gone. But Mr. James, I must say, certainly did behave extremely honourable; for he proposed that the young woman should marry a very respectable person, who was fully prepared to overlook the past, and who was, at least, as good as anybody the young woman could have aspired to in a regular way: her connexions being very common.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What was his horror one evening to meet in the streets the very man who had initiated him in Naples, the giant Gorgiano, a man who had earned the name of ‘Death’ in the south of Italy, for he was red to the elbow in murder!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)