YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yellowstone National Park mean? 

• YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (noun)
  The noun YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK has 1 sense:

1. the first national park in the United States; located in the border area between Wyoming and Montana and Idaho; spectacular wilderness; famous for Old Faithful geyser and for buffalo and bears

  Familiarity information: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first national park in the United States; located in the border area between Wyoming and Montana and Idaho; spectacular wilderness; famous for Old Faithful geyser and for buffalo and bears

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

national park (a tract of land declared by the national government to be public property)

Meronyms (parts of "Yellowstone National Park"):

Old Faithful (a geyser in Yellowstone National Park that erupts for about 4 minutes about every 65 minutes)

Holonyms ("Yellowstone National Park" is a part of...):

Gem State; ID; Id.; Idaho (a state in the Rocky Mountains)

Mont.; Montana; MT; Treasure State (a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border)

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)

 Context examples 

Geophysical monitoring of the ground above active supervolcanoes, like the one located in Yellowstone National Park, shows that it rises and falls as magma moves beneath the surface of the Earth.

(Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone may have been more active in the past, NSF)