NEWFOUNDLAND DOG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Newfoundland dog mean? 

• NEWFOUNDLAND DOG (noun)
  The noun NEWFOUNDLAND DOG has 1 sense:

1. a breed of very large heavy dogs with a thick coarse usually black coat; highly intelligent dogs and vigorous swimmers; developed in Newfoundland

  Familiarity information: NEWFOUNDLAND DOG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWFOUNDLAND DOG (noun)

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Meaning:

A breed of very large heavy dogs with a thick coarse usually black coat; highly intelligent dogs and vigorous swimmers; developed in Newfoundland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Newfoundland; Newfoundland dog

Hypernyms ("Newfoundland dog" is a kind of...):

Canis familiaris; dog; domestic dog (a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds)

 Context examples 

When I came to the stile, I stopped a minute, looked round and listened, with an idea that a horse's hoofs might ring on the causeway again, and that a rider in a cloak, and a Gytrash-like Newfoundland dog, might be again apparent: I saw only the hedge and a pollard willow before me, rising up still and straight to meet the moonbeams; I heard only the faintest waft of wind roaming fitful among the trees round Thornfield, a mile distant; and when I glanced down in the direction of the murmur, my eye, traversing the hall-front, caught a light kindling in a window: it reminded me that I was late, and I hurried on.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)