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MOUNT VERNON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mount Vernon mean? 

MOUNT VERNON (noun)
  The noun MOUNT VERNON has 1 sense:

1. the former residence of George Washington in northeastern Virginia overlooking the Potomac riverplay

  Familiarity information: MOUNT VERNON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOUNT VERNON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The former residence of George Washington in northeastern Virginia overlooking the Potomac river

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

residence (the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president))

Holonyms ("Mount Vernon" is a part of...):

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)


 Context examples 


"The traditional thinking about these exceptionally preserved fossil sites is wrong," said lead author Drew Muscente of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa.

(Fossils may need air to form, National Science Foundation)



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