NOVA ZEMBLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nova Zembla mean? 

• NOVA ZEMBLA (noun)
  The noun NOVA ZEMBLA has 1 sense:

1. two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia; site of a test center for nuclear warheads

  Familiarity information: NOVA ZEMBLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOVA ZEMBLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia; site of a test center for nuclear warheads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Nova Zembla; Novaya Zemlya

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Nova Zembla" is a part of...):

Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)

 Context examples 

They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of the solitary rocks and promontories by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)