RICHMOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Richmond mean? 

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

1. capital of the state of Virginia located in the east central part of the state; was capital of the Confederacy during the American Civil War

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RICHMOND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital of the state of Virginia located in the east central part of the state; was capital of the Confederacy during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Virginia; Richmond

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Richmond" 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 

They were going to remove immediately to Richmond.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Why, I was there when you got that try against Richmond—as fine a swervin' run as I saw the whole season.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now do not make yourself uneasy with any queer fancies because he has been spending a few days at Richmond.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

There are some charming little villas about Richmond.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The Boston Globe reports the Duke of Richmond is believed to have been the original owner of the parchment which the researchers dated to the 1780s.

(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)

The day in Richmond Park was charming, for we had a regular English picnic, and I had more splendid oaks and groups of deer than I could copy, also heard a nightingale, and saw larks go up.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Some twenty well-known prize-fighters, including my friend Bill Warr, Black Richmond, Maddox, The Pride of Westminster, Tom Belcher, Paddington Jones, Tough Tom Blake, Symonds the ruffian, Tyne the tailor, and others, were stationed in the outer ring as beaters.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She smiled her acceptance; and nothing less than a summons from Richmond was to take him back before the following evening.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When he returned from Richmond, he would have been glad to see Mrs. Rushworth no more.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Richmond!” cried Catherine.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)