WINNIPEG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Winnipeg mean? 

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

1. the capital and largest city of Manitoba; located in southern Manitoba; known for severe winters

2. a lake in southern Canada in Manitoba

  Familiarity information: WINNIPEG used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINNIPEG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Manitoba; located in southern Manitoba; known for severe winters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

provincial capital (the capital city of a province)

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

Manitoba (one of the three prairie provinces in central Canada)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A lake in southern Canada in Manitoba

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Lake Winnipeg; Winnipeg

Instance hypernyms:

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

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

Manitoba (one of the three prairie provinces in central Canada)

 Context examples 

The new theory explains why some of the smaller lakes near Titan's north pole, like Winnipeg Lacus, appear in radar imaging to have very steep rims that tower above sea level - rims difficult to explain with the karstic model.

(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)