LISBON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lisbon mean? 

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

1. capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LISBON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Portugal; Lisboa; Lisbon

Instance hypernyms:

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

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Lisbon"):

Ponte 25 de Abril (a suspension bridge across the Tagus River at Lisbon)

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

Portugal; Portuguese Republic (a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil))

 Context examples 

I left Lisbon the 24th day of November, in an English merchantman, but who was the master I never inquired.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I have crossed the Atlantic four times, and have been once to the East Indies, and back again, and only once; besides being in different places about home: Cork, and Lisbon, and Gibraltar.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Researchers at Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) João Lobo Antunes, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, have found that manipulating a single RNA molecule is enough to reverse cellular ageing.

(Scientists Discover Molecule that Could Reverse Cellular Aging, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A multidisciplinary group of scientists from the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME) and the Universities of Granada, Cologne, and Lisbon has demonstrated that the traditional careo underground aquifer recharge system used in Sierra Nevada is the oldest in Europe.

(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)

Her story was as full of desperation and despair as her limited acquaintance with those uncomfortable emotions enabled her to make it, and having located it in Lisbon, she wound up with an earthquake, as a striking and appropriate denouement.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We arrived at Lisbon, Nov. 5, 1715.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The Admiral, after taking two or three refreshing turns about the room with his hands behind him, being called to order by his wife, now came up to Captain Wentworth, and without any observation of what he might be interrupting, thinking only of his own thoughts, began with—If you had been a week later at Lisbon, last spring, Frederick, you would have been asked to give a passage to Lady Mary Grierson and her daughters.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They spoke to me with great humanity, and said, they were sure the captain would carry me gratis to Lisbon, whence I might return to my own country; that two of the seamen would go back to the ship, inform the captain of what they had seen, and receive his orders; in the mean time, unless I would give my solemn oath not to fly, they would secure me by force.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But he added, that since I professed so inviolable an attachment to truth, I must give him my word and honour to bear him company in this voyage, without attempting any thing against my life; or else he would continue me a prisoner till we arrived at Lisbon.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)