DENVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Denver mean? 

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

1. the state capital and largest city of Colorado; located in central Colorado on the South Platte river

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state capital and largest city of Colorado; located in central Colorado on the South Platte river

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Colorado; Denver; Mile-High City

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Centennial State; CO; Colo.; Colorado (a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains)

 Context examples 

Some 30 years ago, a scientist at the University of Colorado Denver suggested that heat from a mantle plume under Marie Byrd Land might explain regional volcanic activity and a topographic dome feature.

(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)

Its capital is Denver.

(Colorado, NCI Thesaurus)

The study, led by Donald Y.M. Leung, M.D., Ph.D., of National Jewish Health in Denver, examined the top layers of the skin, known as the stratum corneum, in areas with eczema lesions and in adjacent normal-looking skin.

(Scientists identify unique subtype of eczema linked to food allergy, National Institutes of Health)