TOLEDO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Toledo mean? 

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

1. an industrial city in northwestern Ohio on Lake Erie

2. a city in central Spain on the Tagus river; famous for steel and swords since the first century

  Familiarity information: TOLEDO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOLEDO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An industrial city in northwestern Ohio on Lake Erie

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)

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

Buckeye State; OH; Ohio (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city in central Spain on the Tagus river; famous for steel and swords since the first century

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)

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

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

 Context examples 

Every land hath indeed its ways and manners; but I promise you, Edward, that when you are my guest in Toledo or Madrid you shall not yearn in vain for any commoner's daughter on whom you may deign to cast your eye.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By Saint James! said he, if ye fall this day ye fall by no mean hands, for the flower of the knighthood of Castile ride under the banner of Don Tello, with the chivalry of Asturias, Toledo, Leon, Cordova, Galicia, and Seville.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)