ODESSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Odessa mean? 

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

1. a port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea

2. a city in western Texas

  Familiarity information: ODESSA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ODESSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Odesa; Odessa

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)

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

Ukraine; Ukrayina (a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city in western Texas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

 Context examples 

From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland.

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