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Gainesville

Gainesville

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A city in north central Florida home to the University of Florida
  • proper noun
  • /ˈɡeɪnzˌvɪl/
: Gainesville
  • The University of Florida is located in Gainesville, making it a vibrant college town.
  • Gainesville, Florida
  • Gainesville, FL
  • university in Gainesville

Hey, CEO, This is Greg from Gainesville.

Examples

  • They've also used sticky fly traps developed at ARS's Medical and Veterinary Entomology Research Laboratory in Gainesville, Florida.

    Academic text (1994)

  • P. K. Yonge Laboratory School, 1080 S.W. 11th Street, Gainesville, Florida 32611.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The body will be taken to a funeral home in Gainesville.

    Ted Bundy (2002)

  • The study was conducted by the author at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

    Academic text (1997)

  • I was at the University of Florida in Gainesville with Sarah Kreissinger who was a psychiatric, social worker at the hospital I was working at.

    After Death (2023)

  • Haile, an agricultural engineer, is also based at the Gainesville lab and provided expertise in bait application technologies.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Futch, Ovid L. History of Andersonville Prison. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Entomologist Gary R. Buckingham of the ARS Aquatic Weed Control Research Unit heads the Gainesville studies.

    Academic text (1997)

  • After moving to Gainesville, she quickly fell in love with the local culture and community.

  • He drove down to Gainesville this weekend to attend the football game at the university.

Surface Forms

Gainesville main

Morphology

Gainesville = Gaines (semi-transparent) = Gaines + ville

Formed by adding the place-name suffix '-ville' to the surname 'Gaines'; the structure is clear for learners who know '-ville', but the surname provides no semantic clue.

Etymology

Gainesville comes from a person's name, Gaines, plus the French ville, which means 'town'. So Gainesville simply means the 'town of Gaines', which explains why it is the name of the city.