LHASA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lhasa mean? 

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

1. the sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers

2. a breed of terrier having a long heavy coat raised in Tibet as watchdogs

  Familiarity information: LHASA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LHASA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Tibet; Forbidden City; Lassa; Lhasa

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Sitsang; Thibet; Tibet; Xizang (an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A breed of terrier having a long heavy coat raised in Tibet as watchdogs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Lhasa; Lhasa apso

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

terrier (any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground)

 Context examples 

They include the Chow Chow, Dalmatian, French Bulldog, and Keeshond as well as the Poodle, Lhasa Apso, and Schipperke.

(Non-Sporting Breed, NCI Thesaurus)

The data show that after the initial earthquake rupture (indicated by the vertical black line) it took about 21 minutes for the earthquake-generated ionospheric disturbance to reach a GPS station (LHAZ), located about 400 miles (640 kilometers) away from the epicenter in Lhasa, Tibet, China.

(GPS Data Show How Nepal Quake Disturbed Earth’s Upper Atmosphere, NASA)