UPSALA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Upsala mean? 

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

1. a city in east central Sweden to the northwest of Stockholm

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPSALA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in east central Sweden to the northwest of Stockholm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Uppsala; Upsala

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

Kingdom of Sweden; Sverige; Sweden (a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula)

 Context examples 

Sweden was also represented, in the person of Professor Sergius, the famous Zoologist of the University of Upsala.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It had been hoped that the proceedings would end there, and that a vote of thanks and congratulation, moved by Professor Sergius, of Upsala University, would be duly seconded and carried; but it was soon evident that the course of events was not destined to flow so smoothly.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)