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NAPLES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region
Synonyms:
Naples; Napoli
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)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Meronyms (members of "Naples"):
Neopolitan (a resident of Naples)
Neapolitan (a native or inhabitant of Naples)
Holonyms ("Naples" is a part of...):
Campania (a region of southwestern Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea including the islands of Capri and Ischia)
Derivation:
Neapolitan (of or relating to or characteristic of Naples or its people)
Context examples:
He was under Miller, as third lieutenant of the Theseus, when our fleet, like a pack of eager fox hounds in a covert, was dashing from Sicily to Syria and back again to Naples, trying to pick up the lost scent.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then, as a second lieutenant, he was in one of those grim three-deckers with powder-blackened hulls and crimson scupper-holes, their spare cables tied round their keels and over their bulwarks to hold them together, which carried the news into the Bay of Naples.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My father sent in his name, and there we sat, looking at the white Italian statuettes in the corners, and the picture of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples which hung over the harpsichord.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
