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Nashville

/ˈnæʃˌvɪl/

Nashville proper noun: a city, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.

Proper noun

Nashville

  1. A city, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.
  2. 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.2024 November 19, Celeste Moure, “Kacey Musgraves’s Nashville”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2024
    Synonyms:
    Music City
  3. (metonymically) The country music industry.
  4. A city, the county seat of Howard County, Arkansas.
  5. A city, the county seat of Berrien County, Georgia.
  6. A city, the county seat of Washington County, Illinois.
  7. A town, the county seat of Brown County, Indiana.
  8. A city in Kansas.
  9. A village in Michigan.
  10. A city, the county seat of Nash County, North Carolina.
  11. A village in Ohio.
  12. A ghost town in Texas.
  13. A town in Forest County, Wisconsin.
  14. A hamlet in Ontario, Canada.

Noun

Nashville (plural Nashvilles)

  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.2005, Bill Thompson III et al., Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 302

Nashville meaning in Arabic

Nashville in Arabic

A city
نَاشْفِيل nāšfīl

Synonyms of Nashville

Forms of Nashville

pluralNashvilles

Origin of Nashville

From Nash (“Francis Nash”) + -ville.

Words formed from Nashville

Phrases with Nashville

Questions about Nashville

What does Nashville mean?
Nashville means a city, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.
What is Nashville in Arabic?
Nashville in Arabic is نَاشْفِيل (nāšfīl). See Nashville meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is Nashville?
Nashville can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Nashville?
Nashville is pronounced /ˈnæʃˌvɪl/.

Words near Nashville in the dictionary

  1. nasho
  2. nashoes
  3. nashos
  4. Nashua
  5. Nashuan
  6. Nashville
  7. Nashville hot chicken
  8. Nashville sound
  9. Nashville tuning
  10. Nashville warbler
  11. Nashville warblers

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