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Puget Sound en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpjuː.d͡ʒɪt ˈsaʊnd/
  • /ˈpjuː.d͡ʒət ˈsaʊnd/

Etymology

Originally "Puget's Sound". Named after English Hugenot Royal Navy officer Peter Puget (1765–1822), who accompanied Captain George Vancouver on his 1792 exploration of the Salish Sea.

Meanings

  1. A sound along the northwestern coast of Washington, United States.
    • A Horizon Air worker took off Friday night in one of the airline’s Q400 turboprops at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and crashed on an island in south Puget Sound after being coaxed by air-traffic control to try to land and trailed by two fighter jets, officials said. 2018 August 10, Paige Cornwell, Agueda Pacheco-Flores, “Airplane taken from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has crashed”, in The Seattle Times, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2018:

Deriveds

Puget Sounder · Puget Sound pine

Hypernyms

Salish Sea

Translations (3)

lut x̌ʷəlč (a sound in Washington) · fi Pugetinlahti (a sound in Washington) · es estrecho de Puget (a sound in Washington)