Naples

American  

[ney-puhlz] / ˈneɪ pəlz /

noun

1. Italian Napoli.  a seaport in southwestern Italy.

2. Italian Golfo di Napoli.  Bay of Naples, a bay in southwestern Italy: Naples located here. 22 miles (35 km) long.

3. a town in southern Florida.

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Naples British  

/ ˈneɪpəlz /

noun

1. Italian name: Napoli.  Ancient name: Neapolis.  a port in SW Italy, capital of Campania region, on the Bay of Naples: the third largest city in the country; founded by Greeks in the 6th century _bc ; incorporated into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1140 and its capital (1282–1503); university (1224). Pop: 1 004 500 (2001)

2. an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy

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Naples Cultural  

1. City in southwestern Italy; a major seaport and commercial, industrial, and tourist center.

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Example Sentences

The original idea came from Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador to Naples and Sicily from 1765 to 1800, who was also deeply interested in volcanology.

From Science Daily • May 2, 2026

At 9 a.m. the next morning, Debbie August, a 71-year-old Jewish woman from Naples, Fla., seated beside me at the mahjong table, ordered a round of mimosas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Patrick Huey with Victory Independent Planning in Naples, Fla., calls the Labor Department’s plan “an evolution, not a revolution.”

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Manchester United co-owner Ratcliffe's Ineos sailing team had intended to challenge for the next America's Cup, in Naples in 2027, but abandoned the plans in April 2025.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

One of his students advised him that Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia, who was teaching in Naples, had already discovered this bone and named it stapes, or ‘the stirrup’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton