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BIRMINGHAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center
Synonyms:
Birmingham; Brummagem
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)
Holonyms ("Birmingham" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern Alabama
Synonyms:
Birmingham; Pittsburgh of the South
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)
Holonyms ("Birmingham" is a part of...):
AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Context examples:
I had just time to get up to town by the night train to see him this morning, and to bring you both back with me to Birmingham.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There had been a daughter, I heard, but she had died of diphtheria while on a visit to Birmingham.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I sat up half the night hugging myself over it, and next day I was off to Birmingham in a train that would take me in plenty time for my appointment.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He swears by London, you know; and I by Birmingham; but this time I shall follow his advice.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Results without causes are much more impressive. You are ready to come to Birmingham, then?”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And as far off as Birmingham?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
‘Be in Birmingham to-morrow at one,’ said he.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was not, however, until we were all in a first-class carriage and well started upon our journey to Birmingham that I was able to learn what the trouble was which had driven him to Sherlock Holmes.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
