SUNDERLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sunderland mean? 

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

1. a port and industrial city in northeastern England

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUNDERLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port and industrial city in northeastern England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

"This research is a major advance in understanding how and why ocean predators, such as tuna and swordfish, are accumulating mercury," said Elsie Sunderland, senior author of the paper.

(Mercury levels in fish are on the rise, National Science Foundation)

Over the little mantelshelf, was a picture of the Sarah Jane lugger, built at Sunderland, with a real little wooden stern stuck on to it; a work of art, combining composition with carpentry, which I considered to be one of the most enviable possessions that the world could afford.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)