CANARIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Canaries mean? 

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

1. a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANARIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Canaries; Canary Islands

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Canaries"):

Tenerife (a Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands)

Holonyms ("Canaries" is a part of...):

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

 Context examples 

They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As I laid down my pen, a moment since, to think of it, the air from the sea came blowing in again, mixed with the perfume of the flowers; and I saw the old-fashioned furniture brightly rubbed and polished, my aunt's inviolable chair and table by the round green fan in the bow-window, the drugget-covered carpet, the cat, the kettle-holder, the two canaries, the old china, the punchbowl full of dried rose-leaves, the tall press guarding all sorts of bottles and pots, and, wonderfully out of keeping with the rest, my dusty self upon the sofa, taking note of everything.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)