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Puget Sound

/ˈpjuː.d͡ʒɪt ˈsaʊnd/

Puget Sound proper noun: a sound along the northwestern coast of Washington, United States.

Proper noun

Puget Sound

  1. A sound along the northwestern coast of Washington, United States.
    • A Horizon Air worker took off Friday night in one of the airline’s Q400 turboprops at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and crashed on an island in south Puget Sound after being coaxed by air-traffic control to try to land and trailed by two fighter jets, officials said.2018 August 10, Paige Cornwell, Agueda Pacheco-Flores, “Airplane taken from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has crashed”, in The Seattle Times, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2018

Origin of Puget Sound

Originally "Puget's Sound". Named after English Hugenot Royal Navy officer Peter Puget (1765–1822), who accompanied Captain George Vancouver on his 1792 exploration of the Salish Sea.

Words formed from Puget Sound

Questions about Puget Sound

What does Puget Sound mean?
Puget Sound means a sound along the northwestern coast of Washington, United States.
What part of speech is Puget Sound?
Puget Sound is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Puget Sound?
Puget Sound is pronounced /ˈpjuː.d͡ʒɪt ˈsaʊnd/.

Words near Puget Sound in the dictionary

  1. pugdogs
  2. pugeranian
  3. pugeranians
  4. Puget
  5. Puget Island
  6. Puget Sound
  7. Puget Sound pine
  8. Puget Sounder
  9. Puget Sounders
  10. puggaree
  11. puggarees

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