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MIAMI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city and resort in southeastern Florida on Biscayne Bay; the best known city in Florida; a haven for retirees and a refuge for Cubans fleeing Castro
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)
point of entry; port of entry (a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise)
Holonyms ("Miami" is a part of...):
Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Miami" is a kind of...):
Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)
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