Grenada
name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 An island and country in the Caribbean.
- 2 A census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
- 3 A city, the county seat of Grenada County, Mississippi, United States.
Example
More examples"The United States cannot win a war against a big and strong country. It can only annihilate a weak and relatively small country like Serbia or Iraq. It can also win a war in less than 24 hours against a tiny island like Grenada."
Etymology
From anglicization/latinization of French Grenade upon the island's cession to the United Kingdom under the terms of the 1763 Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years' War, from Spanish Granada and Los Granadillos on Spanish maps from at least the 1520s, from Granada in Spain, from Arabic غَرْنَاطَة (Ḡarnāṭa), originally a suburb of the city. Doublet of Granada.
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