SAVANNAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Savannah mean? 

• SAVANNAH (noun)
  The noun SAVANNAH has 3 senses:

1. a port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river

2. a river in South Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic

3. a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions

  Familiarity information: SAVANNAH used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAVANNAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river

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)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

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

Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A river in South Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Savannah; Savannah River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina (a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

savanna; savannah

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

grassland (land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life)

 Context examples 

We waited long for news of the Lone Star of Savannah, but none ever reached us.

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

He gave it me at Savannah, when he lay a-dying, like as if I was to now, you see.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Policies that prevent fires caused by people in El Cerrado (the Brazilian savannah) lead to biodiversity losses because they promote the expansion of forests with dense vegetation.

(Fire control harms biodiversity in Brazilian savannah, SciDev.Net)

The biologists discovered that Savannah monitor lizards have lung structures that are a hybrid system of bird and mammal lungs.

(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)

For example, one such group, the turacos (‘banana eaters’) are fruit-eating birds which are only found in the forests and savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, but fossils of an early turaco relative have been found in modern-day Wyoming, in the northern United States.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)

Then he sealed it and addressed it to “Captain James Calhoun, Barque Lone Star, Savannah, Georgia.”

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

“Well, and where are they now? Pew was that sort, and he died a beggar-man. Flint was, and he died of rum at Savannah. Ah, they was a sweet crew, they was! On'y, where are they?”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I went down to the Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah.

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

This also added to my wretchedness, and to crown all, I was haunted by the thought of the tragedy that had once been acted on that plateau, when that ungodly buccaneer with the blue face—he who died at Savannah, singing and shouting for drink—had there, with his own hand, cut down his six accomplices.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

By the time that their sailing-ship reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder.

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