GLASGOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Glasgow mean? 

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

1. largest city in Scotland; a port on the Clyde in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLASGOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Largest city in Scotland; a port on the Clyde in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Glasgow"):

Glaswegian (an inhabitant of Glasgow)

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

Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)

Derivation:

Glaswegian (of or relating to or characteristic of Glasgow or its inhabitants)

 Context examples 

The genome of the Zika virus had already been sequenced in 2016 by the Virology and Experimental Therapy Department of FIOCRUZ in Pernambuco in collaboration with scientists from the University of Glasgow, but human sampling was used back then.

(Brazil scientists find out Culex mosquito can transmit Zika, Agência Brasil)

The study of 2.8 million people from anonymized patient records presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Glasgow gives an indication of the extent to which obesity can take a toll on people’s health in the real world – as opposed to clinical trials.

(Middle Age Severely Obese People More Likely to Die Early, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)