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Townsville

/ˈtaʊnzvɪl/

Townsville proper noun: a coastal city in northern Queensland, Australia.

Proper noun

Townsville

  1. A coastal city in northern Queensland, Australia.
    • On the morning of October 23 we stopped at Townsville in northern Australia for fuel. Lady Bird and I attended services at the Cathedral Church of St. James. Then we visited with the mayor and the townspeople. Thoughts of bygone days filled my mind as I passed through the streets of Townsville, but...1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The New Age of Regionalism”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 361
  2. A local government area in Queensland; in full, the City of Townsville.
  3. An unincorporated community in Vance County, North Carolina, United States.
  4. A generic hypothetical or fictional town name.

Origin of Townsville

From the surname Towns + -ville. Named after Robert Towns in Queensland.

Words formed from Townsville

Questions about Townsville

What does Townsville mean?
Townsville means a coastal city in northern Queensland, Australia.
What part of speech is Townsville?
Townsville is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Townsville?
Townsville is pronounced /ˈtaʊnzvɪl/.

Words near Townsville in the dictionary

  1. townspeople
  2. townsperson
  3. townspersons
  4. townsquare
  5. townsquares
  6. Townsville
  7. Townsvillean
  8. Townsvillian
  9. Townsvillians
  10. townswoman
  11. townswomen

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