ST. VINCENT

 Dictionary entry overview: What does St. Vincent mean? 

• ST. VINCENT (noun)
  The noun ST. VINCENT has 1 sense:

1. an island in the center of the Windward Islands; the largest of the islands comprising Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

  Familiarity information: ST. VINCENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ST. VINCENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island in the center of the Windward Islands; the largest of the islands comprising Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Saint Vincent; St. Vincent

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "St. Vincent"):

Kingstown (the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; on Saint Vincent)

Holonyms ("St. Vincent" is a part of...):

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; St. Vincent and the Grenadines (an island country in the central Windward Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1979)

 Context examples 

Lord St. Vincent told me so with his own lips.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was but last week that I had the honour of dining with my friend, Lord St. Vincent, and I took occasion to mention you to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I have scarce caught a glimpse of you since you came aboard the Excellent after St. Vincent. You had the luck to be at the Nile also, I understand?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Those rascals over yonder manage things better,” said an old one-eyed captain, with the blue-and-white riband for St. Vincent peeping out of his third buttonhole.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are many men in town, such as Lord St. Vincent, Lord Hood, and others, who move in the most respectable circles, although they have nothing but their services in the Navy to recommend them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was just after we had moved from Portsmouth to Friar’s Oak, whither he came for a week before he set sail with Admiral Jervis to help him to turn his name into Lord St. Vincent.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)