PALM BEACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Palm Beach mean? 

• PALM BEACH (noun)
  The noun PALM BEACH has 1 sense:

1. a resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast

  Familiarity information: PALM BEACH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALM BEACH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Palm Beach" is a part of...):

Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery)

 Context examples 

I knew now why her face was familiar—its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)