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TOSCANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Toscana mean? 

TOSCANA (noun)
  The noun TOSCANA has 1 sense:

1. a region in central Italyplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


TOSCANA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A region in central Italy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Toscana; Tuscany

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Toscana"):

Pisa (a city in Tuscany; site of the famous Leaning Tower)

Firenze; Florence (a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries)

Meronyms (members of "Toscana"):

Tuscan (a resident of Tuscany)

Holonyms ("Toscana" 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)


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