MADISON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Madison mean? 

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

1. 4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame the Bill of Rights (1751-1836)

2. capital of the state of Wisconsin; located in the southern part of state; site of the main branch of the University of Wisconsin

  Familiarity information: MADISON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MADISON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame the Bill of Rights (1751-1836)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Madison; Madison; President Madison

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Capital of the state of Wisconsin; located in the southern part of state; site of the main branch of the University of Wisconsin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Wisconsin; Madison

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Meronyms (parts of "Madison"):

University of Wisconsin (a university in Madison, Wisconsin)

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

Badger State; WI; Wis.; Wisc.; Wisconsin (a midwestern state in north central United States)

 Context examples 

Thanks, in part, to pigs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Arlington Agricultural Research Station, scientists now are catching up on understanding the roots of calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD).

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

New work by University of Wisconsin-Madison geologists Brad Singer, Brian Jicha and colleagues finds that the most recent field reversal 770,000 years ago took at least 22,000 years to complete, several times longer than previously thought.

(Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought, National Science Foundation)

To investigate the underlying neural mechanisms for working memory, a team led by Dr. Bradley Postle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison carried out a series of brain imaging and stimulation studies in student volunteers.

(Recalling temporary memories, NIH)

Plants and animals exploit fundamentally different approaches to transporting fluids, chemicals, and macromolecules, yet there are surprising similarities in their vascular network structures, said researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Arkansas State University-Jonesboro.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)

Scientists from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, reported that health and longevity improved with increased fasting time, regardless of what the mice ate or how many calories they consumed.

(Longer daily fasting times improve health and longevity, National Institutes of Health)

After that, if the night was mellow I strolled down Madison Avenue past the old Murray Hill Hotel and over Thirty-third Street to the Pennsylvania Station.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)