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Paintsville

Paintsville proper noun: a city, the county seat of Johnson County, Kentucky, United States.

Proper noun

Paintsville

  1. A city, the county seat of Johnson County, Kentucky, United States.

Origin of Paintsville

From Paint + -s- + -ville, after Paint Creek (Johnson County, Kentucky).

Questions about Paintsville

What does Paintsville mean?
Paintsville means a city, the county seat of Johnson County, Kentucky, United States.
What part of speech is Paintsville?
Paintsville is a proper noun.

Words near Paintsville in the dictionary

  1. paints with the same brush
  2. paintshop
  3. paintshops
  4. paintstick
  5. paintsticks
  6. Paintsville
  7. painture
  8. paintures
  9. paintwork
  10. paintworks
  11. painty

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