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nashville
/ˈnæʃvɪl/
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What does nashville mean?
noun
- The Nashville warbler, Leiothlypis ruficapilla.
proper noun
- A city, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.
- The capital city of Tennessee.
More meanings (12)
proper noun
- The country music industry.
- A city, the county seat of Howard County, Arkansas.
- A city, the county seat of Berrien County, Georgia.
- A city, the county seat of Washington County, Illinois.
- A town, the county seat of Brown County, Indiana.
- A city in Kansas.
- A village in Michigan.
- A city, the county seat of Nash County, North Carolina.
- A village in Ohio.
- A ghost town in Texas.
- A town in Forest County, Wisconsin.
- A hamlet in Ontario, Canada.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈnæʃvɪl/
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"Edgar is gone," said the mother, with head half bowed,--"gone to work in Nashville; he and his father couldn't agree."
Then in after years when I came to Nashville I saw the great temple builded of these songs towering over the pale city.
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Five concerts were given at St. Louis, and then they went to Nashville, Tenn., where the sixty-sixth and sixty-seventh of the series were given.
We find the double-spiral figure upon a shell ornament found on the breast of a skeleton, in a carefully constructed stone coffin, in a mound near Nashville, Tennessee.
Eve of Nashville mentions a boy who placed a fourpenny nail in a spool to make a whistle, and, by a violent inspiration, drew the nail deep into the left bronchus.