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VALENCIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Valencia mean?
• VALENCIA (noun)
The noun VALENCIA has 2 senses:
1. an industrial city in northern Venezuela
2. a city in eastern Spain on the Mediterranean
Familiarity information: VALENCIA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An industrial city in northern Venezuela
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 ("Valencia" is a part of...):
Republic of Venezuela; Venezuela (a republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A city in eastern Spain on the Mediterranean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Context example:
Valencia is the third largest city in Spain
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Valencia" 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
Pepper grafting could become an environmentally friendly adaptation strategy, says Angeles Calatayud, a researcher at the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias in Valencia, Spain, and co-author of the paper.
(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)
Unfortunately, increasing nutrient concentrations and the consequences of eutrophication have been recorded for most of the ancient lakes, including Victoria (on the border of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), Baikal (Russia), Valencia (Venezuela), Titicaca (Peru) and Ohrid (Macedonia).
(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)
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