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Tumwater

Tumwater proper noun: a city in Thurston County, Washington, United States.

Proper noun

Tumwater

  1. A city in Thurston County, Washington, United States.
    • I will continue to support differentiated learning experiences for all of Tumwater students to include those with learning disabilities and our gifted and talented.2025 August 2, Ann Duan, “Primary Primer: 3 questions for Tumwater School Board candidates”, in The Olympian, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2025
  2. A middle school in Portland, Oregon.
    • The Beaverton School Board has selected a name for a new middle school located in the Cedar Mill area. On Monday, Feb. 22, the board unanimously decided on the name Tumwater Middle School for the school located on Northwest 118th Avenue, which has been previously referred to as Timberland. […]...2021 February 28, Gabby Urenda, “Renamed Tumwater Middle School honors Chinuk Wawa language”, in Portland Tribune, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2026

Origin of Tumwater

Borrowed from Chinook Jargon tumwata (“waterfall”), from Chinook Jargon tumtum (“heartbeat”) + English water.

Questions about Tumwater

What does Tumwater mean?
Tumwater means a city in Thurston County, Washington, United States.
What part of speech is Tumwater?
Tumwater is a proper noun.

Words near Tumwater in the dictionary

  1. tumuluses
  2. Tumupasa
  3. Tumushuke
  4. Tumut
  5. Tumut Plains
  6. Tumwater
  7. Tumxuk
  8. tun
  9. tun-bellies
  10. tun-belly
  11. Tun-huang

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