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ST. GEORGE'S
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital and largest city of Grenada
Synonyms:
capital of Grenada; St. George's
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Holonyms ("St. George's" is a part of...):
Grenada (an island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea; an independent state within the British Commonwealth)
Context examples:
On my saying that I did not understand, she went on: It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that to-night, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I should like the scheme, and we would make a little circuit, and shew you Everingham in our way, and perhaps you would not mind passing through London, and seeing the inside of St. George's, Hanover Square.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
You talked of expected horrors in London—and instead of instantly conceiving, as any rational creature would have done, that such words could relate only to a circulating library, she immediately pictured to herself a mob of three thousand men assembling in St. George's Fields, the Bank attacked, the Tower threatened, the streets of London flowing with blood, a detachment of the Twelfth Light Dragoons (the hopes of the nation) called up from Northampton to quell the insurgents, and the gallant Captain Frederick Tilney, in the moment of charging at the head of his troop, knocked off his horse by a brickbat from an upper window.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
