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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sicily mean? 

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

1. the Italian region on the island of Sicily

2. the largest island in the Mediterranean

  Familiarity information: SICILY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SICILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Italian region on the island of Sicily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Sicilia; Sicily

Instance hypernyms:

Italian region (Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "Sicily"):

Aegadean Islands; Aegadean Isles; Aegates; Egadi Islands; Isole Egadi (a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean)

Messina (a port city in northeastern Sicily on the Strait of Messina)

Siracusa; Syracuse (a city in southeastern Sicily that was founded by Corinthians in the 8th century BC)

Palermo (the capital of Sicily; located in northwestern Sicily; an important port for 3000 years)

Acragas; Agrigento (a town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast; the site of six Greek temples)

Etna; Mount Etna; Mt Etna (an inactive volcano in Sicily; last erupted in 1961; the highest volcano in Europe (10,500 feet))

Meronyms (members of "Sicily"):

Sicilian (a resident of Sicily)

Holonyms ("Sicily" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The largest island in the Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Sicilia; Sicily

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Sicily"):

Cape Passero; Passero Cape (a cape that forms the southeastern corner of the island of Sicily)

Domain member region:

Cape Passero; Passero (a naval battle in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Passero in which the Spanish navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719))

siege of Syracuse; Syracuse (the Athenian siege of Syracuse (415-413 BC) was eventually won by Syracuse)

siege of Syracuse; Syracuse (the Roman siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC) was eventually won by the Romans who sacked the city (killing Archimedes))

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

Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea (the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia)

Derivation:

Sicilian (of or relating to or characteristic of Sicily or the people of Sicily)

 Context examples 

To her the cares were sometimes almost beyond the happiness; for young and inexperienced, with small means of choice and no confidence in her own taste, the how she should be dressed was a point of painful solicitude; and the almost solitary ornament in her possession, a very pretty amber cross which William had brought her from Sicily, was the greatest distress of all, for she had nothing but a bit of ribbon to fasten it to; and though she had worn it in that manner once, would it be allowable at such a time in the midst of all the rich ornaments which she supposed all the other young ladies would appear in?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He was under Miller, as third lieutenant of the Theseus, when our fleet, like a pack of eager fox hounds in a covert, was dashing from Sicily to Syria and back again to Naples, trying to pick up the lost scent.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He might say, as he did say, that a right angle was a proper sort of angle, or put Panama in Sicily, but old Joshua Allen would as soon have thought of raising his cane against him as he would of letting me off if I had said as much.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)