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Nashville en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈnæʃˌvɪl/

Etymology

From Nash (“Francis Nash”) + -ville.

Meanings

  1. The Nashville warbler, Leiothlypis ruficapilla.
    • Of the three, the Nashville is probably easiest to identify. No matter what plumage it's in, the Nashville always sports a complete white to whitish eye-ring. 2005, Bill Thompson III et al., Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 302:

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Translations (14)

am ናሽቪል (A city) · fr Nashville (A city) · uk Нешвілл (A city) · la Nasvilla (A city) · ru Нэшвилл (A city) · la Nasburgum (A city) · ja ナッシュビル (A city) · ja ナッシュヴィル (A city) · ar نَاشْفِيل (A city) · haw Nasawila (A city) · ru Нашвилл (A city) · pl Nashville (A city) · haw Nakawila (A city) · uk Нашвілл (A city)

wikipedia: Francis Nash

Nashville en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈnæʃˌvɪl/

Etymology

From Nash (“Francis Nash”) + -ville.

Meanings

  1. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A city, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.
  2. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A city, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. ▸ The capital city of Tennessee.
    • “I always knew that Nashville would be a destination of some sort for me, that I would land there in terms of music,” said the singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves during a Zoom call. 2024 November 19, Celeste Moure, “Kacey Musgraves’s Nashville”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2024:
  3. (metonymically) A number of places in the United States: ▸ The country music industry.
  4. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A city, the county seat of Howard County, Arkansas.
  5. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A city, the county seat of Berrien County, Georgia.
  6. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A city, the county seat of Washington County, Illinois.
  7. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A town, the county seat of Brown County, Indiana.
  8. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A city in Kansas.
  9. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A village in Michigan.
  10. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A city, the county seat of Nash County, North Carolina.
  11. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A village in Ohio.
  12. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A ghost town in Texas.
  13. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A town in Forest County, Wisconsin.
  14. A hamlet in Ontario, Canada.

Deriveds

Nashvillian · Nashville tuning · Nashville sound

Synonyms

Music City

wikipedia: Francis Nash