Kingstown

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The capital city of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on the island of Saint Vincent

proper noun

: Kingstown

As noted, the railways ran right up into the ports of Dublin, Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), and Queenstown (now Cobh), and the schedules connected with the sailing times of the steamers.
North Kingstown
South Kingstown

Examples

Many were desperately looking for work in a skilled trade in Kingstown, but job opportunities were very limited.
The cold and tempestuous day has dawned before we touch Kingstown and are hurried—wretched for lack of sleep and the means of making a fresh toilet—into the train for Dublin.

Blog text (22)
Why don't you take her down to Kingstown, get some sea air?

Michael Collins (1996)
Instead, they were known as the "mail trains." The service between Kingstown, south of Dublin, and Queenstown was known as the "American Mail." For those from the south-west of Ireland who intended to emigrate to the United States, there were two options.

Academic text (1993)
Why don't you take her down to Kingstown, get some sea air?
PHOTO: Twice a week the M/V Snapper, aka "the mail boat," leaves from Kingstown to deliver news and supplies throughout the Grenadines.

Surface Forms

Kingstown main

Morphology

Kingstown = king + town (semi-transparent) = king + town

Both components are lexically transparent but the item is a proper place name whose referential meaning (a specific capital) is not a predictable compositional product of 'king' + 'town' for learners.

Etymology

Kingstown comes from two simple English words: king 'ruler' and town 'a place where people live'. So Kingstown literally means 'the king's town', an easy way to remember that it is the main city or capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.