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FLORENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries
Synonyms:
Firenze; Florence
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 (members of "Florence"):
Florentine (a native or resident of Florence, Italy)
Holonyms ("Florence" is a part of...):
Toscana; Tuscany (a region in central Italy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Florence" is a part of...):
Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina (a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies)
Context examples:
Little is currently known about Florence's properties.
(Biggest Asteroid Ever Detected Flies Past Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Mrs. Carrol, Florence's mamma, was ordered to buy, have made, and marked a generous supply of house and table linen, and send it as her present, all of which was faithfully done, but the secret leaked out, and was greatly enjoyed by the family, for Aunt March tried to look utterly unconscious, and insisted that she could give nothing but the old-fashioned pearls long promised to the first bride.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And I have seen the aged Giotto, and he in turn was pupil to Cimabue, before whom there was no art in Italy, for the Greeks were brought to paint the chapel of the Gondi at Florence.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began.
(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)
Florence was discovered in 1981 by astronomer Schelte "Bobby" Bus at Australia's Siding Spring Observatory and named after Florence Nightingale, the nursing pioneer.
(Biggest Asteroid Ever Detected Flies Past Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The resulting radar images will show the real size of Florence and also could reveal surface details as small as about 30 feet (10 meters).
(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)
The relatively close proximity of Florence provides astronomers with a rare chance to take measurements.
(Biggest Asteroid Ever Detected Flies Past Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It is named in honor of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing.
(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)
Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began.
(Biggest Asteroid Ever Detected Flies Past Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
