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alabama
/ˌæl.əˈbæm.ə/
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What does alabama mean?
noun
- An indigenous Muscogee people of central Alabama.
- A member of these people.
proper noun
- A state of the United States. Capital: Montgomery. Largest city: Birmingham.
More meanings (4)
proper noun
- A river in Alabama; flowing 318 miles from the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa near Coosada until its confluence with the Tombigbee, forming the Mobile, near Calvert.
- A Muskogean language, spoken by the Alabama people.
- A town in New York; named for the state.
- Ellipsis of University of Alabama.
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IPA pronunciation
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I had some money in my belt, but I would need that for the boarding-house keeper in the Alabama iron town.
The boasted “tour of the world” was talked about, disputed, argued with as much warmth as if the subject were another Alabama claim.
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I remember that very soon after I began teaching school in Alabama an old colored man came to me just prior to an election.
His book on the wild turkey, an extension into publishable form of a manuscript from a civilized Alabama hunter, is delightful and illuminative reading.
From another correspondent with whom Inez had lived in Alabama for a few weeks we had a marvelous tale which they heard from her.