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CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791
Synonyms:
American capital; capital of the United States; Washington; Washington D.C.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "capital of the United States"):
Capitol; Capitol Building (the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet)
Lincoln Memorial (memorial building in Washington containing a large marble statue of Abraham Lincoln)
Washington Monument (a stone obelisk built in Washington in 1884 to honor George Washington; 555 feet tall)
White House (the government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States)
Capitol Hill; the Hill (a hill in Washington, D.C., where the Capitol Building sits and Congress meets)
Georgetown (a section of northwestern Washington, D.C.)
Instance hyponyms:
Potomac (term sometimes used to refer to Washington, D.C.)
Holonyms ("capital of the United States" is a part of...):
D.C.; DC; District of Columbia (the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia)
