SOMBRERO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sombrero mean? 

• SOMBRERO (noun)
  The noun SOMBRERO has 2 senses:

1. one of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis

2. a straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico

  Familiarity information: SOMBRERO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMBRERO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

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

Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Christopher-Nevis; Saint Kitts and Nevis; St. Christopher-Nevis; St. Kitts and Nevis (a country on several of the Leeward Islands; located to the east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sombrero" is a kind of...):

chapeau; hat; lid (headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim)

 Context examples 

By contrast, in the smaller Sombrero Galaxy, black holes mergers typically take about 160 million years, offering more opportunities for pulsar timing arrays to detect gravitational waves from them.

(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)