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Jacksonville

Jacksonville proper noun: a city, the county seat of Duval County, Florida, United States. It is the largest city in Florida and is consolidated with the county.

Proper noun

Jacksonville

  1. A city, the county seat of Duval County, Florida, United States. It is the largest city in Florida and is consolidated with the county.
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  2. A city in Calhoun County, Alabama.
  3. A city in Pulaski County, Arkansas.
  4. A town in Telfair County, Georgia.
  5. An unincorporated community in Towns County, Georgia, United States.
  6. A city, the county seat of Morgan County, Illinois.
  7. An unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Switzerland County, Indiana.
  8. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Shelby County, Iowa.
  9. The former name of a home rule city in Russell County, Kentucky; now Jamestown.
  10. An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, more commonly known as Phoenix.
  11. A village in Randolph County, Missouri.
  12. An unincorporated community in Sullivan County, Missouri.
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  1. An unincorporated community in Burlington County, New Jersey.
  2. A hamlet in Tompkins County, New York.
  3. A city, the county seat of Onslow County, North Carolina.
  4. A village in Athens County, Ohio.
  5. An unincorporated community in Adams County, Ohio.
  6. A city in Jackson County, Oregon.
  7. A census-designated place in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
  8. A city in Cherokee County, Texas.
  9. A village in the town of Whitingham, Windham County, Vermont.
  10. The original name of a town in Floyd County, Virginia; now Floyd.
  11. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
  12. An unincorporated community in the town of Adrian, Monroe County, Wisconsin.

Origin of Jacksonville

From Jackson + -ville; most are named for a person with the surname of Jackson, including many named for former United States President Andrew Jackson.

Words formed from Jacksonville

Questions about Jacksonville

What does Jacksonville mean?
Jacksonville means a city, the county seat of Duval County, Florida, United States. It is the largest city in Florida and is consolidated with the county.
What part of speech is Jacksonville?
Jacksonville is a proper noun.

Words near Jacksonville in the dictionary

  1. Jacksonite
  2. Jacksonites
  3. Jacksonmania
  4. Jacksons
  5. Jacksons Flat
  6. Jacksonville
  7. Jacksonville Beach
  8. Jacksonvillian
  9. jackspeak
  10. jackstaff
  11. jackstaffs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jacksonville (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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