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smyrna
/ˈsmɜɹnə/
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What does smyrna mean?
proper noun
- A former settlement in Kern County, California.
- A town in Kent County and New Castle County, Delaware.
- A city in Cobb County, Georgia, United States.
More meanings (12)
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Salt Creek Township, Decatur County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Indiana, also called Creswell.
- A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
- A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
- An unincorporated community in Otisco Township, Ionia County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
- A town and village in Chenango County, New York.
- A locality in Carteret County, North Carolina.
- A tiny town in York County and Cherokee County, South Carolina.
- A sizable town in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
- An unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington.
- (historical) An ancient port city on the Aegean coast of western Asia Minor founded in circa the 11ᵗʰ century BC on the site of the present-day Turkish city of İzmir.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsmɜɹnə/
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See this word in context.
The General as well as I was bound for Smyrna, and we agreed to sail together in an Ionian brigantine.
The state bed of Sobieski, King of Poland, was made of Smyrna gold brocade embroidered in turquoises with verses from the Koran.
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About noon on the following day Disbrowe proceeded to the Smyrna Coffee-house, where, as he expected, he found Parravicin and his companions.
His favorite place was on the brightest spot of a Smyrna rug by the conservatory, where the sunlight fell and he could hear the fountain play.
Galen mentions an injury to a youth in Smyrna, in whom the brain was so seriously wounded that the anterior ventricles were opened; and vet the patient recovered.