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MONTE CARLO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Monte Carlo mean?
• MONTE CARLO (noun)
The noun MONTE CARLO has 1 sense:
1. a town and popular resort in the principality of Monaco; famous for its gambling casino
Familiarity information: MONTE CARLO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A town and popular resort in the principality of Monaco; famous for its gambling casino
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Monte Carlo" is a part of...):
Monaco; Principality of Monaco (a constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera)
Context examples
"Oh, do you like Europe?" she exclaimed surprisingly. "I just got back from Monte Carlo."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
No, we just went to Monte Carlo and back. We went by way of Marseilles. We had over twelve hundred dollars when we started but we got gypped out of it all in two days in the private rooms. We had an awful time getting back, I can tell you. God, how I hated that town!
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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