SYDNEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sydney mean? 

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

1. the largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYDNEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Meronyms (parts of "Sydney"):

Sydney Harbor Bridge (a steel arch bridge in Sydney, Australia)

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

New South Wales (an Australian state in southeastern Australia)

 Context examples 

UNSW Sydney scientist and study first author Associate Professor Thomas Whitford says it has long been thought that these auditory-verbal hallucinations arise from abnormalities in inner speech — our silent internal dialogue.

(Talking to Ourselves And Voices in Our Heads, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Genetically-intact HIV hides in the same cells of the human immune system that are supposed to attack and destroy pathogens, scientists at Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney University, discover in a new study.

(HIV seeks refuge in immune cells to avoid full elimination, SciDev.Net)

After an excellent voyage the Hotspur landed us at Sydney, where Evans and I changed our names and made our way to the diggings, where, among the crowds who were gathered from all nations, we had no difficulty in losing our former identities.

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