TACOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tacoma mean? 

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

1. a city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound to the south of Seattle

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TACOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound to the south of Seattle

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)

Meronyms (parts of "Tacoma"):

Tacoma Narrows Bridge (a suspension bridge across Puget Sound at Tacoma)

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

Evergreen State; WA; Wash.; Washington (a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific)