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WASHINGTON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The federal government of the United States
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Instance hypernyms:
federal government (a government with strong central powers)
Derivation:
Washingtonian (of or relating to the people who run the federal government)
Sense 2
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 "Washington"):
Georgetown (a section of northwestern Washington, D.C.)
Capitol Hill; the Hill (a hill in Washington, D.C., where the Capitol Building sits and Congress meets)
White House (the government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States)
Washington Monument (a stone obelisk built in Washington in 1884 to honor George Washington; 555 feet tall)
Lincoln Memorial (memorial building in Washington containing a large marble statue of Abraham Lincoln)
Capitol; Capitol Building (the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet)
Instance hyponyms:
Potomac (term sometimes used to refer to Washington, D.C.)
Holonyms ("Washington" 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)
Derivation:
Washingtonian (of or relating to the capital of the United States)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
Synonyms:
Evergreen State; WA; Wash.; Washington
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Washington"):
Vancouver (a town in southwestern Washington on the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon)
Walla Walla (a town in southeastern Washington near the Oregon border)
Yakima (a town in south central Washington)
Mount Saint Helens; Mount St. Helens; Mt. St. Helens (an active volcano in the Cascade Range in southwestern Washington; erupted violently in 1980 after 123 years of inactivity)
Adams; Mount Adams (a mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high))
Lake Chelan (a narrow very deep lake in central Washington in the Cascade Range)
Columbia; Columbia River (a North American river; rises in southwestern Canada and flows southward across Washington to form the border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific; known for its salmon runs in the spring)
Inland Passage; Inside Passage (a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska)
Puget Sound (an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State)
Mount Rainier; Mount Tacoma; Mt. Rainier; Rainier (a mountain peak in central Washington; highest peak in the Cascade Range; (14,410 feet high))
scablands ((geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington))
Snake; Snake River (a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition)
Tacoma (a city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound to the south of Seattle)
Spokane (a city in eastern Washington near the Idaho border)
Seattle (a major port of entry and the largest city in Washington; located in west central Washington on the protected waters of Puget Sound with the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Range and Mount Rainier visible to the south and east; an aerospace and computer center; site of the University of Washington)
capital of Washington; Olympia (capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound)
Kennewick (a town in southern Washington on the Columbia River)
Bellingham (a town in northwestern Washington on a bay near the Canadian border)
Aberdeen (a town in western Washington)
Cape Flattery (a cape of northwestern Washington)
Olympic National Park (a national park in Washington having rain forests of giant evergreens)
North Cascades National Park (a national park in Washington that is an alpine wilderness area featuring gold rush and logging campsites)
Mount Rainier National Park (a national park in Washington having mountain terrain featuring glaciers and alpine lakes and streams and swamps)
Pacific Northwest (a region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia)
Holonyms ("Washington" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Derivation:
Washingtonian (of or relating to or in the state of Washington)
Sense 4
Meaning:
1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)
Synonyms:
George Washington; President Washington; Washington
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)
Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)
Derivation:
Washingtonian (of or relating to or in the manner of George Washington)
Sense 5
Meaning:
United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)
Synonyms:
Booker T. Washington; Booker Taliaferro Washington; Washington
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)
Context examples:
New research by Washington University in St. Louis scientists show that it might soon be possible to engineer plants to develop their own fertilizer.
(Bacteria Used to Create Fertilizer Out of Thin Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Researchers at George Washington University, led by Stuart Licht, think they have developed a novel solution, and they're calling it the "molten air battery."
(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)
A census division of the United States consisting of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington.
(Pacific States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)
Another time the brown wanderer succeeded in traversing half the length of California, all of Oregon, and most of Washington, before he was picked up and returned "Collect."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The research team used advanced data-processing techniques on data from 1,300 GPS stations in the mountains of California, Oregon and Washington, collected from 2006 through October 2017.
(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)
A University of Washington team has discovered that this ancient survival strategy is still being used in low-oxygen parts of the marine environment.
(Arsenic-breathing microbes discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean, National Science Foundation)
The Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium is a research collaboration comprising the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital, and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
(Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)
A new study now adds kidney disease to the list, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System.
(Breathing Dirty Air May Harm Kidneys, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
That's going to be a very interesting question in the future, said first author Melinda Webster, an oceanography graduate student at the University of Washington.
(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)
James Fleckenstein, professor of medicine and molecular microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine and an author of the study, says the work focused on the binding of the EtpA protein of the specific H10407 strain of ETEC on blood group A using a group of healthy volunteers in the US.
(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)
