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WHITNEY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high)

Synonyms:

Mount Whitney; Whitney

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

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

High Sierra; Sierra Nevada; Sierra Nevada Mountains (a mountain range in eastern California; contains Mount Whitney)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)

Synonyms:

Eli Whitney; Whitney

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

manufacturer; producer (someone who manufactures something)

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