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CALGARY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Calgary mean?
• CALGARY (noun)
The noun CALGARY has 1 sense:
1. the largest city in southern Alberta; an oil and gas center and a technology center for Alberta and most of western Canada
Familiarity information: CALGARY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest city in southern Alberta; an oil and gas center and a technology center for Alberta and most of western Canada
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 ("Calgary" is a part of...):
Alberta (one of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals)
Context examples
A joint research team from the University of Calgary, American Museum of Natural History, and Florida State University announced Monday that the eggs of non-avian dinosaurs such as the duck-billed dinosaur took as long as six months to hatch, far longer than had previously been believed.
(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)
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