SEATTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Seattle mean? 

• SEATTLE (noun)
  The noun SEATTLE has 1 sense:

1. a major port of entry and the largest city in Washington; located in west central Washington on the protected waters of Puget Sound with the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Range and Mount Rainier visible to the south and east; an aerospace and computer center; site of the University of Washington

  Familiarity information: SEATTLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEATTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A major port of entry and the largest city in Washington; located in west central Washington on the protected waters of Puget Sound with the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Range and Mount Rainier visible to the south and east; an aerospace and computer center; site of the University of Washington

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)

point of entry; port of entry (a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise)

Meronyms (parts of "Seattle"):

Space Needle (a tower 605 feet tall in Seattle; a tourist attraction)

University of Washington (a university in Seattle, Washington)

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

Evergreen State; WA; Wash.; Washington (a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific)

 Context examples 

So changed was he that the Judge himself would not have recognized him; and the express messengers breathed with relief when they bundled him off the train at Seattle.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium is a research collaboration comprising the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital, and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

(Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

The study’s lead investigator, Tom Reh, Ph.D., and his team at UW Medicine in Seattle, looked to the zebrafish for clues about how to encourage regeneration in the mouse eye.

(Researchers unlock regenerative potential of cells in the mouse retina, National Institutes of Health)

New research led by NASA and the University of Washington, Seattle, confirms that springtime snow on sea ice in the Arctic has thinned significantly in the last 50 years, by about a third in the Western Hemisphere and by half near Alaska.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)

The most exciting aspect to this analyser is that it uses whole blood (blood components intact) and doesn’t require additional steps and reagents to prepare a sample, says Nathan Sniadecki, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, and an author of the report.

(New approach promises better anaemia detection, SciDev.Net)

That was the last he saw of the man in the red sweater, and as Curly and he looked at receding Seattle from the deck of the Narwhal, it was the last he saw of the warm Southland.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)