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JAMESTOWN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A former village on the James River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
hamlet; village (a settlement smaller than a town)
Holonyms ("Jamestown" is a part of...):
Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)
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