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VESUVIUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vesuvius mean? 

VESUVIUS (noun)
  The noun VESUVIUS has 1 sense:

1. a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


VESUVIUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Mount Vesuvius; Mt. Vesuvius; Vesuvius

Instance hypernyms:

volcano (a mountain formed by volcanic material)

Holonyms ("Vesuvius" 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)


 Context examples 


I'll partake of no one's hospitality, until I have—a—moved Mount Vesuvius—to eruption—on—a—the abandoned rascal—HEEP!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My father sent in his name, and there we sat, looking at the white Italian statuettes in the corners, and the picture of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples which hung over the harpsichord.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Now, sir,” said my aunt to Mr. Micawber, as she put on her gloves, “we are ready for Mount Vesuvius, or anything else, as soon as YOU please.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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