CAPITAL OF GEORGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capital of Georgia mean? 

• CAPITAL OF GEORGIA (noun)
  The noun CAPITAL OF GEORGIA has 2 senses:

1. state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War

2. the capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river

  Familiarity information: CAPITAL OF GEORGIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPITAL OF GEORGIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

State capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Atlanta; capital of Georgia

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Meronyms (parts of "capital of Georgia"):

CDC; Center for Disease Control and Prevention (a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases))

Domain member region:

Atlanta; battle of Atlanta (a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864)

Holonyms ("capital of Georgia" is a part of...):

Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Georgia; Tbilisi; Tiflis

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("capital of Georgia" is a part of...):

Georgia; Sakartvelo (a republic in Asia Minor on the Black Sea separated from Russia by the Caucasus mountains; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991)