TUSCANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tuscany mean? 

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

1. a region in central Italy

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUSCANY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region in central Italy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Toscana; Tuscany

Instance hypernyms:

Italian region (Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "Tuscany"):

Pisa (a city in Tuscany; site of the famous Leaning Tower)

Firenze; Florence (a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries)

Meronyms (members of "Tuscany"):

Tuscan (a resident of Tuscany)

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

Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)

Derivation:

Tuscan (of or relating to or characteristic of Tuscany or its people)

 Context examples 

Oh! That we had such weather here as they had at Udolpho, or at least in Tuscany and the south of France!—the night that poor St. Aubin died!—such beautiful weather!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)