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birmingham
/ˈbɝ.mɪŋ.əm/
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What does birmingham mean?
proper noun
- A major city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, historically in Warwickshire with a population of over one million.
- Ellipsis of University of Birmingham.
- A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama.
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proper noun
- A community in the city of Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut.
- A township in Schuyler County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Allen Township, Miami County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Fairfield Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
- A minor city in Van Buren County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Jackson County, Kansas.
- A ghost town in Marshall County, Kentucky, now flooded by Kentucky Lake.
- A city in Oakland County, Michigan.
- A village in Clay County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Pemberton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey.
- A ghost town in Lafayette Township, Coshocton County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Florence Township, Erie County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Guernsey County, Ohio.
- A borough in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
- A township in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
- A community in the Rural Municipality of Stanley No. 215, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɝ.mɪŋ.əm/
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Names are forbidden, and a man must call his own father “my right honorable friend the member for West Birmingham.”
E. W. belongs to Birmingham, is in his forty-ninth year, and has been in and out of prison all his life.
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I am heartily glad we shall meet at Birmingham, as I trust we shall, if my health will but keep up.
I could have spent a month profitably among the vast variety of small traders in metal, of which Birmingham is the headquarters.
Hickinbotham of Birmingham reports the history of two cases of labor at term in females whose hymens were immensely thickened.