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TOSCANA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Toscana mean?
• TOSCANA (noun)
The noun TOSCANA has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: TOSCANA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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