US CONSTITUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does US Constitution mean? 

• US CONSTITUTION (noun)
  The noun US CONSTITUTION has 1 sense:

1. the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states

  Familiarity information: US CONSTITUTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• US CONSTITUTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Constitution; Constitution of the United States; U.S. Constitution; United States Constitution; US Constitution

Instance hypernyms:

constitution; fundamental law; organic law (law determining the fundamental political principles of a government)

Meronyms (parts of "US Constitution"):

advice and consent (a legal expression in the United States Constitution that allows the Senate to constrain the President's powers of appointment and treaty-making)

Bill of Rights (a statement of fundamental rights and privileges (especially the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution))

Fourteenth Amendment (an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government)

Eighteenth Amendment (an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; repealed in 1932)

Nineteenth Amendment (an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

 Context examples 

It is a "federal district" established by the US Constitution as the seat of government.

(District of Columbia, NCI Thesaurus)