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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Geneva mean? 

• GENEVA (noun)
  The noun GENEVA has 2 senses:

1. a city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva; it is the headquarters of various international organizations

2. gin made in the Netherlands

  Familiarity information: GENEVA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENEVA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva; it is the headquarters of various international organizations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Geneva; Geneve; Genf

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Meronyms (members of "Geneva"):

Genevan (a native or resident of Geneva)

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

Schweiz; Suisse; Svizzera; Swiss Confederation; Switzerland (a landlocked federal republic in central Europe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Gin made in the Netherlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

geneva; Holland gin; Hollands

Hypernyms ("geneva" is a kind of...):

gin (strong liquor flavored with juniper berries)

 Context examples 

You had mentioned Geneva as the name of your native town, and towards this place I resolved to proceed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Both are professors at the University of Geneva; Queloz is also a professor at the University of Cambridge.

(Swedish academy announces 2019 Nobel Prize winners in physics, Wikinews)

“One could say that this planet gets rainy in the evening, except it rains iron,” says David Ehrenreich, a professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

However, according to a researcher at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) in Switzerland, these concepts may be no longer valid: the phenomena they are supposed to describe can be demonstrated without them.

(There May Be No Dark Matter, Dark Energy in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

We sat in the Strasburg salle-à-manger arguing the question for half an hour, but the same night we had resumed our journey and were well on our way to Geneva.

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

It was not long, before I had almost as many friends in the valley as in Yarmouth: and when I left it, before the winter set in, for Geneva, and came back in the spring, their cordial greetings had a homely sound to me, although they were not conveyed in English words.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Now, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Geneva and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), they have extended the cultures to reveal a capacity of mouse stem cells to produce ‘pseudo-embryos’ that display some of the important characteristics of a normal mouse embryo.

(Scientists develop mouse ‘embryo-like structures’ with organisation along body’s major axes, University of Cambridge)

With assistance from collaborators at Tennessee State University and in Geneva, Switzerland, they were able to measure the star around which the planet orbits to gain a clearer picture of whether life could exist there.

(Searching for Life on Wolf 1061 Exoplanet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Located in Geneva, Switzerland.

(International Union Against Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

Morning dawned before I arrived at the village of Chamounix; I took no rest, but returned immediately to Geneva.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)