PALERMO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Palermo mean? 

• PALERMO (noun)
  The noun PALERMO has 1 sense:

1. the capital of Sicily; located in northwestern Sicily; an important port for 3000 years

  Familiarity information: PALERMO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALERMO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital of Sicily; located in northwestern Sicily; an important port for 3000 years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

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

Sicilia; Sicily (the Italian region on the island of Sicily)

 Context examples 

The planet’s gravity may cause motions of gas in the interior of the star that weaken the convection, said co-author Salvatore Sciortino also of INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo in Italy.

(NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Finds Planet That Makes Star Act Deceptively Old, NASA)

WASP-18b is an extreme exoplanet," said Ignazio Pillitteri of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo in Italy, who led the study.

(NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Finds Planet That Makes Star Act Deceptively Old, NASA)