NEW ORLEANS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Orleans mean? 

• NEW ORLEANS (noun)
  The noun NEW ORLEANS has 1 sense:

1. a port and largest city in Louisiana; located in southeastern Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi river; a major center for offshore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico; jazz originated here among black musicians in the late 19th century; Mardi Gras is celebrated here each year

  Familiarity information: NEW ORLEANS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW ORLEANS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port and largest city in Louisiana; located in southeastern Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi river; a major center for offshore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico; jazz originated here among black musicians in the late 19th century; Mardi Gras is celebrated here each year

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Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

point of entry; port of entry (a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise)

Meronyms (parts of "New Orleans"):

Fat Tuesday; Mardi Gras (a carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday (the last day before Lent) but especially in New Orleans)

Greater New Orleans Bridge (twin cantilever bridges across the Mississippi at New Orleans)

faubourg (a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city)

Holonyms ("New Orleans" 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 

I’ve been in orspital arf my bleedin’ life. I’ve ’ad the fever in Aspinwall, in ’Avana, in New Orleans.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If greenhouse gas concentrations remain on their current trajectory, melting ice from Greenland alone could contribute as much as 24 feet to global sea level rise by the year 3000, which would place much of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans and other coastal cities underwater.

(New research shows an iceless Greenland may be in the future, National Science Foundation)

She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)