Charleston
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3.4
- proper noun
- /ˈtʃɑːrlstən/
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Charleston
- I visited Charleston, South Carolina, and admired its historic architecture.
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Charleston, SC
- city of Charleston
Go with me to Charleston, SC just briefly.
- Go with me to Charleston, SC just briefly.
- That's like saying they want to look between Charleston, SC and Miami, right?
- We're in LA and then the following month in Charleston, SC.
- Josie had it in Charleston and I was so jealous.
- And then in Charleston fire department, we didn't back out of fires.
- They had, they had ruins like this in Charleston.
- And he began to then move N he did not go over to Charleston.
- And I would see these tour guides all around downtown Charleston.
- This is when I was living in Charleston, SC over there.
Examples
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We're in LA and then the following month in Charleston, SC.
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I was born in the town of North Charleston, SC.
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We are not from Charleston. - But it seems so similar.
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So, you know, I was actually in Charleston with Josh.
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And yeah, it's lovely to take a little walk through Charleston at Dust.
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Schedule with my last couple days, like I was in Charleston for a guys trip.
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This is when I was living in Charleston, SC over there.
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Our great-grandfather came to Charleston from there around a hundred and fifty years ago.
Fiction book (1991) -
Young Alexander McGillivray's mother gave her approval; his Charleston education was an important factor in his later success.
Academic text (1990) -
For some years now, the old Charleston families had been gradually disappearing into the suburbs.
Fiction book (1991)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Charleston = Charles (semi-transparent) = charles + ton
Formally analyzable as 'Charles' + '-ton' (town), but as a proper name it does not by itself convey the city's properties to learners.
Etymology
Charleston comes from the name Charles plus the old English ending -ton, which means 'town', so it originally meant 'Charles's town' and is the name of the port city in South Carolina.