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TACOMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tacoma mean?
• TACOMA (noun)
The noun TACOMA has 1 sense:
1. a city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound to the south of Seattle
Familiarity information: TACOMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound to the south of Seattle
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)
Meronyms (parts of "Tacoma"):
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (a suspension bridge across Puget Sound at Tacoma)
Holonyms ("Tacoma" is a part of...):
Evergreen State; WA; Wash.; Washington (a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific)
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