Nashville

//ˈnæʃˌvɪl// name, noun

name, noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The Nashville warbler, Leiothlypis ruficapilla.

    "Of the three, the Nashville is probably easiest to identify. No matter what plumage it's in, the Nashville always sports a complete white to whitish eye-ring."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.
  2. 2
    A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.; The capital city of Tennessee.

    "“I always knew that Nashville would be a destination of some sort for me, that I would land there in terms of music,” said the singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves during a Zoom call."

  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; The country music industry. metonymically
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Howard County, Arkansas.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Berrien County, Georgia.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Washington County, Illinois.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A town, the county seat of Brown County, Indiana.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Kansas.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; A village in Michigan.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Nash County, North Carolina.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A village in Ohio.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Texas.
  8. 13
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Forest County, Wisconsin.
  9. 14
    A hamlet in Ontario, Canada.

Example

More examples

"When he left the Army, Roger Miller moved to the home of country music in Nashville, Tennessee."

Etymology

From Nash (“Francis Nash”) + -ville.

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