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CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capital of the United States mean? 

CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES (noun)
  The noun CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES has 1 sense:

1. the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791play

  Familiarity information: CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES used as a noun is very rare.


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CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

American capital; capital of the United States; Washington; Washington D.C.

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "capital of the United States"):

Capitol; Capitol Building (the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet)

Lincoln Memorial (memorial building in Washington containing a large marble statue of Abraham Lincoln)

Washington Monument (a stone obelisk built in Washington in 1884 to honor George Washington; 555 feet tall)

White House (the government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States)

Capitol Hill; the Hill (a hill in Washington, D.C., where the Capitol Building sits and Congress meets)

Georgetown (a section of northwestern Washington, D.C.)

Instance hyponyms:

Potomac (term sometimes used to refer to Washington, D.C.)

Holonyms ("capital of the United States" is a part of...):

D.C.; DC; District of Columbia (the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia)


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