SEVILLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Seville mean? 

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

1. a city in southwestern Spain; a major port and cultural center; the capital of bullfighting in Spain

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEVILLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southwestern Spain; a major port and cultural center; the capital of bullfighting in Spain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Sevilla; Seville

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 ("Seville" is a part of...):

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

 Context examples 

A group of researchers from the Area of Toxicology in the Department of Nutrition and Bromatology, Toxicology and Legal Medicine at the University of Seville has published the globally pioneering study.

(Steaming Fish More Healthy than Boiling, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

How about flying to Paris? Or in Italy, Venice, Sienna, or Rome? In the US, Carmel-by-the-Sea or Santa Barbara? In Spain, Seville, or in Canada, Victoria or Quebec City?

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

By Saint James! said he, if ye fall this day ye fall by no mean hands, for the flower of the knighthood of Castile ride under the banner of Don Tello, with the chivalry of Asturias, Toledo, Leon, Cordova, Galicia, and Seville.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)