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MADEIRA
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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)
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)
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