DUBLIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dublin mean? 

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

1. capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Republic

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUBLIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Republic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Ireland; Dublin; Irish capital

Instance hypernyms:

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (members of "Dublin"):

Dubliner (a resident of Dublin)

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

Eire; Ireland; Irish Republic; Republic of Ireland (a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921)

 Context examples 

They had not intended to go over till the summer, but she is so impatient to see them again—for till she married, last October, she was never away from them so much as a week, which must make it very strange to be in different kingdoms, I was going to say, but however different countries, and so she wrote a very urgent letter to her mother—or her father, I declare I do not know which it was, but we shall see presently in Jane's letter—wrote in Mr. Dixon's name as well as her own, to press their coming over directly, and they would give them the meeting in Dublin, and take them back to their country seat, Baly-craig, a beautiful place, I fancy.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“My dear Mr. Holmes, In accordance with the scheme which we had formed in order to test our theories” — “the ‘we’ is rather fine, Watson, is it not?” — “I went down to the Albert Dock yesterday at 6 P.M., and boarded the S.S. May Day, belonging to the Liverpool, Dublin, and London Steam Packet Company.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will observe that this line of boats calls at Belfast, Dublin, and Waterford; so that, presuming that Browner had committed the deed and had embarked at once upon his steamer, the May Day, Belfast would be the first place at which he could post his terrible packet.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)