Bartlesville
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6.6
- proper noun
- /ˈbɑrtəlzvɪl/
- When we were kids, traveling through Bartlesville on our way to Tulsa, we always looked for the towers, so they’ve been marked this way for a long time, and I still get a kick out of seeing them.
- Bartlesville, Oklahoma
- Bartlesville, Okla.
- Bartlesville, OK
Examples
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Outreach, a non-profit organization in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
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There's a new buffalo in Bartlesville.
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Growing up in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, I had a great love for this holiday.
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The boys he broke free with got caught trying to hop a train up near Bartlesville heading north.
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The worst part, though, was that Mary took the baby and went home to her grandparents in Bartlesville to wait for Jimmy to quit drinking.
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Girls come on down you're going to Bartlesville, Oklahoma!
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Three water towers in Bartlesville are labeled in Old English lettering as Hot, Warm, and Cold.
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His name was Gilbert E. Carl, from Little Marsh, Pennsylvania, and my uncle, from the same ship, was Arthur Thomison of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
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I'll have to figure out what to do about the 65-mile one-way commute from my home in Tulsa to Bartlesville.
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The city of Bartlesville is located in northeastern Oklahoma, famous for its contributions to the oil industry.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Bartlesville = Bartles (semi-transparent) = Bartles + ville
The structure 'Bartles' + '-ville' clearly signals a place named after a person, but knowledge of the suffix '-ville' as 'town' is not guaranteed for all B1 learners.
Etymology
Bartlesville comes from the name Bartles, an early local trader or family, plus the ending -ville, which means 'town'. So Bartlesville simply means 'Bartles's town', the town named for the Bartles family.