TRAFALGAR SQUARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trafalgar Square mean? 

• TRAFALGAR SQUARE (noun)
  The noun TRAFALGAR SQUARE has 1 sense:

1. a square in central London where there is a memorial to Admiral Nelson

  Familiarity information: TRAFALGAR SQUARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAFALGAR SQUARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A square in central London where there is a memorial to Admiral Nelson

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

public square; square (an open area at the meeting of two or more streets)

Holonyms ("Trafalgar Square" is a part of...):

British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London (the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)

 Context examples 

So, in his fancy, may he see himself sometimes, gracing the vacant pedestal in Trafalgar Square, and adding one more to the horrors of the London streets.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?” he asked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Soon I came upon the source of it, for in the center of a small clearing I found a lake—or a pool, rather, for it was not larger than the basin of the Trafalgar Square fountain—of some black, pitch-like stuff, the surface of which rose and fell in great blisters of bursting gas.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)