Coosa
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- proper noun
- /ˈkuːsə/
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Coosa
- A flotilla of brightly lighted decorated boats parades down the dark waters of the Coosa River, followed by a fireworks show.
- Coosa and Tallapoosa
- town of Coosa
Examples
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Her body was found two miles from the Coosa River entrance, 10 feet underwater.
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13. Harvey H. Jackson III, Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba and Alabama (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995), 33.
Academic text (2009) -
Her body was found two miles from the Coosa River entrance, 10 feet underwater.
Blog text (9) -
Many thanks to the Coosa Lodge members who helped my ordeal brothers and me have a memorable and very special event.
Blog text (26) -
I wondered if we took one of those leaders from the Creek town of Coosa and transported him to the Creek Bingo Palace on Saturday night, if he would have the same respect for those people who come bringing gifts as we do.
Academic text (1995) -
He engaged the Red Sticks in several locations along the Coosa and Tallapoosa River corridor, where his troops routinely impeded the Red Sticks at every turn.
Academic text (2009) -
23. Andrew Jackson to General Blount, Camp at Junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa, in Madison Gazette, May 10, 1814, n.p.
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A twenty-mile drive landed us at the Coosa River in St. Clair County, Ala.
Synonyms
A river in the southeastern United States that flows from northwestern Georgia through eastern Alabama
Compounds
A river in the southeastern United States that flows from northwestern Georgia through eastern Alabama
Surface Forms
Etymology
Coosa comes from a Native American name for a local people and town by the river. So the river was named for the people who lived there—think of it as 'the Coosa people's river'.