ANN ARBOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ann Arbor mean? 

• ANN ARBOR (noun)
  The noun ANN ARBOR has 1 sense:

1. a city in southern Michigan near Detroit; site of the University of Michigan

  Familiarity information: ANN ARBOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANN ARBOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southern Michigan near Detroit; site of the University of Michigan

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)

Meronyms (parts of "Ann Arbor"):

University of Michigan (a university in Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Holonyms ("Ann Arbor" is a part of...):

Great Lakes State; MI; Mich.; Michigan; Wolverine State (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)

 Context examples 

The Ann Arbor system classifies lymphoma into four stages based on anatomic lymph nodal group involvement.

(Ann Arbor Lymphoma Staging System, NCI Thesaurus)

The research was led by Xianzhe Jia, a space physicist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)