GRANADA

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Granada mean? 

• GRANADA (noun)
  The noun GRANADA has 1 sense:

1. a city in southeastern Spain that was the capital of the Moorish kingdom until it was captured by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492; site of the Alhambra (a palace and fortress built by Moors in the Middle Ages) which is now a major tourist attraction

  Familiarity information: GRANADA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANADA (noun)

Meaning:

A city in southeastern Spain that was the capital of the Moorish kingdom until it was captured by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492; site of the Alhambra (a palace and fortress built by Moors in the Middle Ages) which is now a major tourist attraction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Meronyms (parts of "Granada"):

Alhambra (a fortified Moorish palace built near Granada by Muslim kings in the Middle Ages)

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

Andalucia; Andalusia (a region in southern Spain on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; formerly a center of Moorish civilization)