NASSAU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nassau mean? 

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

1. the capital of the Bahamas

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NASSAU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital of the Bahamas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of the Bahamas; Nassau

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Bahama Islands; Bahamas; Commonwealth of the Bahamas (island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort)

 Context examples 

The baths at Nassau were very gay, so was Baden-Baden, where Fred lost some money, and I scolded him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The study is conducted in Suffolk, Nassau, and Schoharie counties in New York and in Tolland County, Conn. It includes more than 10 studies: epidemiologic studies, family breast and ovarian cancer registry, laboratory research, and the creation of a new research tool, a Geographic Information System.

(Long Island Breast Cancer Study, NCI Thesaurus)