NEWFOUNDLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Newfoundland mean? 

• NEWFOUNDLAND (noun)
  The noun NEWFOUNDLAND has 2 senses:

1. a breed of very large heavy dogs with a thick coarse usually black coat; highly intelligent dogs and vigorous swimmers; developed in Newfoundland

2. an island in the north Atlantic

  Familiarity information: NEWFOUNDLAND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWFOUNDLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A breed of very large heavy dogs with a thick coarse usually black coat; highly intelligent dogs and vigorous swimmers; developed in Newfoundland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Newfoundland; Newfoundland dog

Hypernyms ("Newfoundland" is a kind of...):

Canis familiaris; dog; domestic dog (a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An island in the north Atlantic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

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

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

 Context examples 

Buck saw money pass between them, and was not surprised when Curly, a good-natured Newfoundland, and he were led away by the little weazened man.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The Newfoundland is a strong, massive dog with a broad heavy head and webbed feet.

(Newfoundland, NCI Thesaurus)

I can see him as he was in those days with great, floundering, half-formed limbs like a Newfoundland puppy, and a face that set every woman’s head round as he passed her.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A province in the east of Canada, composed of Newfoundland Island and Labrador.

(Newfoundland and Labrador, NCI Thesaurus)

Hold me up, Jo, for upon my life it's one too many for me, returned Laurie, regarding the infants with the air of a big, benevolent Newfoundland looking at a pair of infantile kittens.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the further end of the village, and tolerably disengaged from the rest of it, stood the parsonage, a new-built substantial stone house, with its semicircular sweep and green gates; and, as they drove up to the door, Henry, with the friends of his solitude, a large Newfoundland puppy and two or three terriers, was ready to receive and make much of them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Dr Emily Mitchell of Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences and Dr Charlotte Kenchington from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada examined fossils from Mistaken Point in south-eastern Newfoundland, one of the richest sites of Ediacaran fossils in the world.

(Why life on Earth first got big, University of Cambridge)

When I came to the stile, I stopped a minute, looked round and listened, with an idea that a horse's hoofs might ring on the causeway again, and that a rider in a cloak, and a Gytrash-like Newfoundland dog, might be again apparent: I saw only the hedge and a pollard willow before me, rising up still and straight to meet the moonbeams; I heard only the faintest waft of wind roaming fitful among the trees round Thornfield, a mile distant; and when I glanced down in the direction of the murmur, my eye, traversing the hall-front, caught a light kindling in a window: it reminded me that I was late, and I hurried on.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Newfoundland went first, followed by the three short-haired pointers, the two mongrels hanging more grittily on to life, but going in the end.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Three were short-haired pointers, one was a Newfoundland, and the other two were mongrels of indeterminate breed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)