Tennessee
UK/ˌtɛnəˈsiː//ˌtɪnəˈsiː/
Tennessee proper noun: a state of the United States.
Proper noun
Tennessee
- A state of the United States.
- Fa la la la
Fa la la lee
Now let me go, my honey oh
back to Tennessee
It's beefsteak when I'm workin,
whiskey when I'm dry, and
sweet heaven when I die2011, Gillian Welch, “Tennessee”, in The Harrow & the Harvest, performed by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - The relationship between a hairstylist and a client can be far more than simply somebody to cut and shape hair, which is why Tennessee is the latest state to require cosmetologists to complete training on how to recognize and respond to signs of domestic abuse.2022 January 5, Kaanita Iyer, “Tennessee is the latest state to require hairstylists to complete domestic violence training”, in CNN
- Fa la la la
- A river in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky, United States, that flows from eastern Tennessee into the Ohio River.
- A village in McDonough County, Illinois.
- A male given name.
- A female given name.
Noun
Tennessee (plural Tennessees)
- The Tennessee warbler, Oreothlypis peregrina.
- The Nashville's cousin, the Tennessee warbler, is just as badly named: neither can be found in Tennessee, except during migration. Tennessees vary a lot in fall; some are almost pure white below, mimicking spring plumage, while immatures like the one pictured on page 304 can be quite yellow below.2005, Bill Thompson III et al., Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 303
Tennessee meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
Tennessee in Hindi
- state
- टेनेसी ṭenesī
Tennessee in Tamil
- state
- டென்னிசி ṭeṉṉici, டென்னசி ṭeṉṉaci
Tennessee in Marathi
- state
- टेनसी ṭensī
Tennessee in Bengali
- state
- টেনেসী ṭeneśi
More languagesFewer languages
- Tennessee in Telugu
- టేనస్సీ ṭēnassī
- Tennessee in Malayalam
- ടെന്നസി ṭennasi
- Tennessee in Punjabi
- ਟੈਨੇਸੀ ṭainesī
- Tennessee in Gujarati
- ટેનેસી ṭenesī
- Tennessee in Sanskrit
- टेनेसी ṭenesī
- Tennessee in Nepali
- टेनेसी ṭenesī
- Tennessee in Arabic
- تِينِيسِي tinisī
- Tennessee in Thai
- เทนเนสซี ten-nét-sii
- Tennessee in Myanmar
- တင်နက်ဆီပြည်နယ် tangnakhci-pranynai
Forms of Tennessee
| plural | Tennessees |
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Origin of Tennessee
From Cherokee ᏔᎾᏏ (tanasi), believed to mean “winding river”.
Words formed from Tennessee
Phrases with Tennessee
Words that rhyme with Tennessee
Questions about Tennessee
- What does Tennessee mean?
- Tennessee means a state of the United States.
- What is Tennessee in Hindi?
- Tennessee in Hindi is टेनेसी (ṭenesī). See Tennessee meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Tennessee?
- Tennessee can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Tennessee?
- Tennessee is pronounced /ˌtɛnəˈsiː/ (UK).
Words near Tennessee in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Tennessee (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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