VALPARAISO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Valparaiso mean? 

• VALPARAISO (noun)
  The noun VALPARAISO has 1 sense:

1. the chief port and second largest city of Chile; located on a wide harbor in central Chile

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALPARAISO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The chief port and second largest city of Chile; located on a wide harbor in central Chile

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)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

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

Chile; Republic of Chile (a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast)

 Context examples 

It took a few weeks of very hard thinking to figure out that the only way to make such a disc is the evaporation of a giant planet, says Matthias Schreiber from the University of Valparaiso in Chile, who computed the past and future evolution of this system.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)