Nantucket
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6.1
- proper noun
- /nænˈtʌkɪt/
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Nantucket
- I just, I was at a conference this past weekend in, in Nantucket, this thing called the Nantucket Project.
- Nantucket Island
- Nantucket, Massachusetts
- Nantucket Sound
And after she, she, she established this, this observatory on Nantucket for women.
- And after she, she, she established this, this observatory on Nantucket for women.
- I just, I was at a conference this past weekend in, in Nantucket, this thing called the Nantucket Project.
- A lot of people saying it's the only time in the history of Nantucket the flare gun has been shot in the harbor, In the harbor, still in the harbor.
- Yes, Nantucket, just it would be just the one vote.
Examples
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The Beach Club sat on the north shore of the island, on Nantucket.
Fiction book (2001) -
It was the final day of the season in Nantucket.
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Another summer season is about to begin on beautiful Nantucket Island.
Fiction book (2001) -
It's like the kids are with the grandparents in Nantucket for a few days.
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We went on vacation for two weeks in Nantucket.
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I was trying to sort through hundreds of landscape photographs I'd taken in Nantucket for my next book.
Fiction book (1999) -
Mitchell was born in 1818 to a Quaker family on the island of Nantucket.
Academic text (1992) -
Mack couldn't imagine selling his family's farm, but neither could he imagine leaving Nantucket.
Fiction book (2001) -
My father-in-law used to say there was a time when you could have walked from Martha's Vineyard to Nantucket on the backs of whales.
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We went on vacation for two weeks in Nantucket.
Compounds
- Archaic
A wild, dangerous ride like when a whale pulls a small boat very fast
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nantucket comes from a local Native American name, probably Nannaquaket, which meant 'far away island' or 'place far out at sea'. So the name fits because Nantucket is an island off the coast of Massachusetts.