WINDSOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Windsor mean? 

• WINDSOR (noun)
  The noun WINDSOR has 2 senses:

1. a city in southeastern Ontario on the Detroit River opposite Detroit

2. the British royal family since 1917

  Familiarity information: WINDSOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINDSOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southeastern Ontario on the Detroit River opposite Detroit

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The British royal family since 1917

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

House of Windsor; Windsor

Hypernyms ("Windsor" is a kind of...):

dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)

Meronyms (members of "Windsor"):

Duke of Windsor; Edward; Edward VIII (King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972))

Elizabeth; Elizabeth II (daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-))

George; George V (King of Great Britain and Ireland and emperor of India from 1910 to 1936; gave up his German title in 1917 during World War I (1865-1936))

George; George VI (King of Great Britain and Ireland and emperor of India from 1936 to 1947; he succeeded Edward VIII (1895-1952))

 Context examples 

Nay, keep your knee for my sweet father at Windsor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I hope you have pleasant accounts from Windsor?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Once we heard that he was at Windsor with the King.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some weeks afterwards I learned incidentally that my friend spent a day at Windsor, whence he returned with a remarkably fine emerald tie-pin.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“My address,” said Mr. Micawber, “is Windsor Terrace, City Road. I—in short,” said Mr. Micawber, with the same genteel air, and in another burst of confidence—“I live there.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We quitted London on the 27th of March and remained a few days at Windsor, rambling in its beautiful forest.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“I have little doubt that in Smithfield or at Windsor an English crowd would favor their own countrymen.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is half way to Windsor by this time.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He paid me a week down (from his own pocket, I believe), and I gave Mealy sixpence out of it to get my trunk carried to Windsor Terrace that night: it being too heavy for my strength, small as it was.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In this expedition we did not intend to follow the great road to Edinburgh, but to visit Windsor, Oxford, Matlock, and the Cumberland lakes, resolving to arrive at the completion of this tour about the end of July.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)