WATERFORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Waterford mean? 

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

1. a port city in southern Ireland; famous for glass industry

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERFORD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port city in southern Ireland; famous for glass industry

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 ("Waterford" is a part of...):

Eire; Ireland; Irish Republic; Republic of Ireland (a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921)

 Context examples 

You will observe that this line of boats calls at Belfast, Dublin, and Waterford; so that, presuming that Browner had committed the deed and had embarked at once upon his steamer, the May Day, Belfast would be the first place at which he could post his terrible packet.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)