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nashville

/ˈnæʃvɪl/

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What does nashville mean?

noun

  1. The Nashville warbler, Leiothlypis ruficapilla.

proper noun

  1. A city, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.
  2. The capital city of Tennessee.
More meanings (12)

proper noun

  1. The country music industry.
  2. A city, the county seat of Howard County, Arkansas.
  3. A city, the county seat of Berrien County, Georgia.
  4. A city, the county seat of Washington County, Illinois.
  5. A town, the county seat of Brown County, Indiana.
  6. A city in Kansas.
  7. A village in Michigan.
  8. A city, the county seat of Nash County, North Carolina.
  9. A village in Ohio.
  10. A ghost town in Texas.
  11. A town in Forest County, Wisconsin.
  12. 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."
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206
Then in after years when I came to Nashville I saw the great temple builded of these songs towering over the pale city.
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkProject Gutenberg ebook #408
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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.
Joel BentonA Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. BarnumProject Gutenberg ebook #1576
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.
Ignatius DonnellyAtlantis: The Antedeluvian WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #4032
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.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747