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Spartanburg

Spartanburg proper noun: a city, the county seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.

Proper noun

Spartanburg

  1. A city, the county seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.

Origin of Spartanburg

From Spartan + -burg, named after the Spartan Regiment, a local militia in the American Revolutionary War.

Words formed from Spartanburg

Questions about Spartanburg

What does Spartanburg mean?
Spartanburg means a city, the county seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
What part of speech is Spartanburg?
Spartanburg is a proper noun.

Words near Spartanburg in the dictionary

  1. Spartacists
  2. Spartacus
  3. spartaeine
  4. spartaeines
  5. spartan
  6. Spartanburg
  7. Spartanburg County
  8. Spartanhood
  9. spartanism
  10. Spartanization
  11. Spartanize

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