MONTGOMERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Montgomery mean? 

• MONTGOMERY (noun)
  The noun MONTGOMERY has 3 senses:

1. Canadian novelist (1874-1942)

2. English general during World War II; won victories over Rommel in North Africa and led British ground forces in the invasion of Normandy (1887-1976)

3. the state capital of Alabama on the Mobile River

  Familiarity information: MONTGOMERY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONTGOMERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Canadian novelist (1874-1942)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

L. M. Montgomery; Lucy Maud Montgomery; Montgomery

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

English general during World War II; won victories over Rommel in North Africa and led British ground forces in the invasion of Normandy (1887-1976)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein; Bernard Law Montgomery; Montgomery; Sir Bernard Law Montgomery

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The state capital of Alabama on the Mobile River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Alabama; Montgomery

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

 Context examples 

This is his statement as made before Inspector Montgomery at the Shadwell Police Station, and it has the advantage of being verbatim.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Its capital is Montgomery.

(Alabama, NCI Thesaurus)

He had invited not only the chief fighting-men of the day, but also those men of fashion who were most interested in the ring: Mr. Fletcher Reid, Lord Say and Sele, Sir Lothian Hume, Sir John Lade, Colonel Montgomery, Sir Thomas Apreece, the Hon. Berkeley Craven, and many more.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)