GRAND CANAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Grand Canal mean? 

• GRAND CANAL (noun)
  The noun GRAND CANAL has 2 senses:

1. the major waterway in Venice, Italy

2. an inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China; extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the south

  Familiarity information: GRAND CANAL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAND CANAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The major waterway in Venice, Italy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

canal (long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation)

Holonyms ("Grand Canal" is a part of...):

Venezia; Venice (the provincial capital of Veneto; built on 118 islands within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice; has canals instead of streets; one of Italy's major ports and a famous tourist attraction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China; extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the south

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

canal (long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation)

Holonyms ("Grand Canal" is a part of...):

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)

 Context examples 

Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)