WASHINGTON

Pronunciation (US):

• WASHINGTON (noun)
  The noun WASHINGTON has 5 senses:

1. 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
2. a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
3. the federal government of the United States
4. 1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)
5. United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)

  Familiarity information: WASHINGTON used as a noun is common.

• WASHINGTON (noun)

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

American capital; capital of the United States; Washington; Washington D.C.

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 tall stone obelisk in Washington honoring George Washington)

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 nation's capital and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia)

Meaning:

A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

WA; Evergreen State; Washington

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Washington"):

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 Ranier; Mount Tacoma; Mt. Ranier; Ranier (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)

Walla Walla (a town in southeastern Washington near the Oregon border)

Vancouver (a town in southwestern Washington on the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon)

Tacoma (a city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound south of Seattle)

Mount Ranier National Park (a national park in Washington having mountain terrain featuring glaciers and alpine lakes and streams and swamps)

North Cascades National Park (a national park in Washington that is an alpine wilderness area featuring gold rush and logging campsites)

Olympic National Park (a national park in Washington having rain forests of giant evergreens)

Cape Flattery (a cape of northwestern Washington)

Aberdeen (a town in western Washington)

Bellingham (a town in northeastern Washington on a bay near the Canadian border)

Kennewick (a town in southern Washington on the Columbia River)

capital of Washington; Olympia (capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound)

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 Ranier visible to the south and east; an aerospace and computer center; site of the University of Washington)

Spokane (a city in eastern Washington near the Idaho border)

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)

Meaning:

The federal government of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Washington; Capital

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

federal government (a government with strong central powers)

Meaning:

1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

George Washington; President Washington; Washington

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)

Meaning:

United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Booker T. Washington; Booker Taliaferro Washington; Washington

Instance hypernyms:

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)