TAMALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tamale mean? 

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

1. a city in northern Ghana

2. dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed

  Familiarity information: TAMALE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAMALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in northern Ghana

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)

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

Ghana; Gold Coast; Republic of Ghana (a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

tamal; tamale

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

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Domain region:

Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)