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MADEIRA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An amber dessert wine from the Madeira Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Madeira" is a kind of...):

fortified wine (wine to which alcohol (usually grape brandy) has been added)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Madeira"):

malmsey (sweet Madeira wine)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa; the largest of the Madeira Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("Madeira" is a part of...):

Madeira Islands; Madeiras (a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Morocco; the group forms an autonomous region of Portugal)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A Brazilian river; tributary of the Amazon River

Synonyms:

Madeira; Madeira River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Madeira" is a part of...):

Brasil; Brazil; Federative Republic of Brazil (the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I will write to Madeira the moment I get home, and tell my uncle John I am going to be married, and to whom: if I had but a prospect of one day bringing Mr. Rochester an accession of fortune, I could better endure to be kept by him now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)