geneva

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/d͡ʒəˈniːvə/

Definition of geneva

30 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. The capital city of Geneva canton, Switzerland.
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  1. The capital city of Geneva canton, Switzerland.
  2. A canton of Switzerland.
  3. The largest lake in Switzerland: see Lake Geneva.
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  26. A locality in the Kyogle council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  27. A female given name transferred from the place name or confused with Genevieve or Ginevra.
  28. The Geneva Convention.

noun

  1. (alt-of, countable, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of geneva (gin, jenever)
    “Let our actor, in the true spirit of imitating his betters, follow the example of the great Mr. K⁠—⁠n; that is, let him roll about through the day from pot-house to pot-house like a rumbling old beer barrel, with ten or a dozen noggins of Geneva in his pate.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)Gin, especially jenever.

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Etymology

Mentioned in Latin texts as Genava. Probably via a Proto-Celtic *genwā from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénw-eh₂ (“knee”), a derivative of *ǵónu in the sense of a bending river or estuary, possibly akin to Genoa.

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