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Tammany

Tammany proper noun: tammany Hall, a building near Union Square in New York City, formerly headquarters for the New York County Democratic Party.

Proper noun

Tammany

  1. Tammany Hall, a building near Union Square in New York City, formerly headquarters for the New York County Democratic Party.
  2. The nickname of the New York County Democratic Party, until the success of reform elements in the 1970s.
  3. A style of corrupt democratic politics.
    • New York City[’s] corrupt political machine, known as Tammany Hall, felt threatened by the Force Bill and mobilized against it on Capitol Hill.2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 28, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN

Tammany meaning in Tamil

Tammany in Tamil

அரசியல் ஊழலுக்குரிய இடம்

Origin of Tammany

Tamanend or Tammany was a chief of part of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley who became a hero to the colonists and gave his name to organizations throughout the American colonies beginning in 1772. One was New York City's Society of St. Tammany, which became the New York County Democratic Party organization.

Words formed from Tammany

Questions about Tammany

What does Tammany mean?
Tammany means tammany Hall, a building near Union Square in New York City, formerly headquarters for the New York County Democratic Party.
What is Tammany in Tamil?
Tammany in Tamil is அரசியல் ஊழலுக்குரிய இடம். See Tammany meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Tammany?
Tammany is a proper noun.

Words near Tammany in the dictionary

  1. Tammanial
  2. Tammanize
  3. Tammanized
  4. Tammanizes
  5. Tammanizing
  6. Tammany
  7. Tammanyism
  8. Tammanyite
  9. Tammanyites
  10. Tammanyization
  11. Tammanyize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tammany (page history and authors); tammany (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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