What does "huntsville" mean?
A city, the county seat of Madison County, Alabama, United States.
Huntsville
name
name ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A city, the county seat of Madison County, Alabama, United States.
- Grammar: huntsville is listed as name.
- Nearest alternatives: municipality, settlement, urban center.
- Useful contrasts: countryside, rural area.
- Usage evidence: Sidewalks in Huntsville were mostly decorative. People drove their SUVs to grocery stores two blocks away, their air-conditioning on full blast.
How to use "huntsville"
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A city, the county seat of Madison County, Alabama, United States.
"Sidewalks in Huntsville were mostly decorative. People drove their SUVs to grocery stores two blocks away, their air-conditioning on full blast."
- 2 A city, the county seat of Madison County, Arkansas, United States.
- 3 A community in Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
- 4 An unincorporated community in Schuyler County, Illinois, United States.
- 5 An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, United States.
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- 6 An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Indiana, United States.
- 7 An unincorporated community in Reno County, Kansas, United States.
- 8 A city, the county seat of Randolph County, Missouri, United States.
- 9 An unincorporated community in Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States.
- 10 A village in Logan County, Ohio, United States.
- 11 A town, the county seat of Scott County, Tennessee, United States.
- 12 A city, the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States.
"There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again."
- 13 A town in Weber County, Utah, United States.
- 14 An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington, United States.
- 15 A former community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States.
- 16 A town in Muskoka district municipality, Ontario, Canada.
Synonyms
All synonymsAntonyms
countrysiderural area
Example
"Sidewalks in Huntsville were mostly decorative. People drove their SUVs to grocery stores two blocks away, their air-conditioning on full blast."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "huntsville"?
Common synonyms include: municipality, settlement, urban center.
How do you use "huntsville" in a sentence?
Sidewalks in Huntsville were mostly decorative. People drove their SUVs to grocery stores two blocks away, their air-conditioning on full blast.
Etymology
From Hunt + -s- + -ville.