CHAPEL HILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chapel Hill mean? 

• CHAPEL HILL (noun)
  The noun CHAPEL HILL has 1 sense:

1. a town in central North Carolina; site of the University of North Carolina

  Familiarity information: CHAPEL HILL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAPEL HILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in central North Carolina; site of the University of North Carolina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Meronyms (parts of "Chapel Hill"):

University of North Carolina (a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

Holonyms ("Chapel Hill" is a part of...):

N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tested the approach as an early intervention in preschool-age children newly diagnosed with peanut allergy.

(Preschoolers benefit from peanut allergy therapy, NIH)

In the study, scientists led by Scott Parnell, Ph.D., at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, administered a variety of CBs alone and in combination with alcohol in varying amounts to mice on day eight of pregnancy, which is similar to the third and fourth weeks of pregnancy in humans.

(Using both marijuana and alcohol during early pregnancy may increase the likelihood of disrupting fetal development, National Institutes of Health)