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HAVANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Havana mean? 

HAVANA (noun)
  The noun HAVANA has 1 sense:

1. the capital and largest city of Cuba; located in western Cuba; one of the oldest cities in the Americasplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HAVANA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Cuba; located in western Cuba; one of the oldest cities in the Americas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Cuba; Cuban capital; Havana

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Cuba; Republic of Cuba (a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba)


 Context examples 


Having indicated an arm-chair to me and placed my refreshment near it, he handed me a long, smooth Havana.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, this is a Havana, and these others are cigars of the peculiar sort which are imported by the Dutch from their East Indian colonies.

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



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