SAVOY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Savoy mean? 

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

1. a geographical region of historical importance; a former duchy in what is now southwestern France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy

2. head of soft crinkly leaves

  Familiarity information: SAVOY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAVOY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A geographical region of historical importance; a former duchy in what is now southwestern France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

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

Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

Schweiz; Suisse; Svizzera; Swiss Confederation; Switzerland (a landlocked federal republic in central Europe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Head of soft crinkly leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

savoy; savoy cabbage

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

head cabbage (any of several varieties of cabbage having a large compact globular head; may be steamed or boiled or stir-fried or used raw in coleslaw)

 Context examples 

They had been floating about all the morning, from gloomy St. Gingolf to sunny Montreux, with the Alps of Savoy on one side, Mont St. Bernard and the Dent du Midi on the other, pretty Vevay in the valley, and Lausanne upon the hill beyond, a cloudless blue sky overhead, and the bluer lake below, dotted with the picturesque boats that look like white-winged gulls.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was echoed from Salêve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)