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atlanta

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What does atlanta mean?

proper noun

  1. The capital and largest city of Georgia, United States and the county seat of Fulton County, Georgia.
  2. A community in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  3. A community in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua.
More meanings (17)

proper noun

  1. An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Arkansas, United States.
  2. An unincorporated community in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Elmore County, Idaho, United States.
  5. A small city in Logan County, Illinois.
  6. A small town in Jackson Township, Hamilton County, Indiana.
  7. A tiny city in Cowley County, Kansas.
  8. An unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky, United States.
  9. A village in Winn Parish, Louisiana.
  10. A census-designated place, the county seat of Montmorency County, Michigan.
  11. An unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States.
  12. A tiny city in Macon County, Missouri.
  13. A village in Phelps County, Nebraska.
  14. A hamlet in the town of Cohocton, Steuben County, New York.
  15. An unincorporated community in Pickaway County, Ohio, United States.
  16. A city in Cass County, Texas.
  17. A small town in Rusk County, Wisconsin.
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IPA pronunciation

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After the Atlanta riot I attended a number of conferences between leading white men and leading colored men.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206
Since their day they have been imitated—sometimes well, by the singers of Hampton and Atlanta, sometimes ill, by straggling quartettes.
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkProject Gutenberg ebook #408
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From here I went to the Atlanta University, and prepared for the college course, which in due time I took up.
Henry Ossian FlipperHenry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military AcademyProject Gutenberg ebook #2448
The anchor had scarcely caught the sandy bottom when five hundred boats surrounded the Atlanta, and the steamer was taken by assault.
Jules VerneFrom the Earth to the moon; and, round the moonProject Gutenberg ebook #83
It is employing as large a force of messenger-boys as the army that marched with General Sherman from Atlanta to the sea.
Herbert Newton CassonThe History of the TelephoneProject Gutenberg ebook #819