GOA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Goa mean? 

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

1. a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

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

Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)

 Context examples 

An extract of Goa powder; a complex mixture of reduction products of chrysophanic acid, emodin, and emodin monomethyl ether; used locally in ringworm, psoriasis, and eczema.

(Chrysarobin, NCI Thesaurus)

It's there she learned 'Pieces of eight,' and little wonder; three hundred and fifty thousand of 'em, Hawkins! She was at the boarding of the viceroy of the Indies out of Goa, she was; and to look at her you would think she was a babby. But you smelt powder—didn't you, cap'n?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)