BOLOGNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bologna mean? 

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

1. the capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy to the east of the Apennines

2. large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork

  Familiarity information: BOLOGNA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOLOGNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy to the east of the Apennines

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

Emilia-Romagna (a region of north central Italy on the Adriatic)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

bologna; Bologna sausage

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

sausage (highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bologna"):

polony (another name for Bologna sausage)

 Context examples 

So saying, he slammed a sack of gold dust of the size of a bologna sausage down upon the bar.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A team of astronomers, led by Olga Cucciati of Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) Bologna, have used the VIMOS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) to identify a gigantic proto-supercluster of galaxies forming in the early Universe, just 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang.

(Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Found, ESO)

Nano-sized vesicles released by certain bacteria that inhabit the vagina may protect against HIV infection, suggests a study of human cells and tissues by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Bologna, Italy.

(Vesicles released by bacteria may reduce the spread of HIV in human tissue, National Institutes of Health)