English Explanatory Dictionary

Tennessee

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A state of the United States.
  2. A river in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky, United States, that flows from eastern Tennessee into the Ohio River.
  3. A village in McDonough County, Illinois.
  4. A male given name.
  5. A female given name.
noun
  1. The Tennessee warbler, Oreothlypis peregrina.

Pronunciation

/ˌtɛnəˈsiː/ en-us-Tennessee.ogg /ˌtɪnəˈsiː/ /ˌtenəˈsiː/

Word forms

Tennessee Tennessees

Etymology

From Cherokee ᏔᎾᏏ (tanasi), believed to mean “winding river”.

Derived words

State of Tennessee Tennessean Tennesseean Tennessee rifle Tennessee windage Tennesseian tennessine TN Treeing Tennessee Brindle
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