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LOMBARDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lombardy mean? 

LOMBARDY (noun)
  The noun LOMBARDY has 1 sense:

1. a region of north central Italy bordering Switzerlandplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LOMBARDY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A region of north central Italy bordering Switzerland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Lombardia; Lombardy

Instance hypernyms:

Italian region (Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "Lombardy"):

Cremona (a city in Lombardy on the Po River; noted for the manufacture of fine violins from the 16th to the 18th centuries)

Milan; Milano (the capital of Lombardy in northern Italy; has been an international center of trade and industry since the Middle Ages)

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

Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)


 Context examples 


It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)



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