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Nashville

Nashville

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The capital city of Tennessee known for country music
  • proper noun
  • /ˈnæʃvɪl/
: Nashville
  • The city of Nashville is known as the heart of country music.
  • Nashville, Tennessee
  • Nashville, TN
  • Metro Nashville

Trans woman who's in Nashville right now, bro.

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Examples

  • I live in Nashville.

  • I hope to see you in Nashville for an enriching few days of music and learning!

    Academic text (2015)
  • I was speaking in Nashville a few years ago.

  • Just had a great call with a Nashville music organization.

  • I went to Nashville to visit our friend Josh.

  • So to be cool, I'm flying to Nashville in a few hours.

  • The woman loves music, loves the power of Nashville, loves it all to extremes.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Among my reasons for going to Nashville was the possibility of teaching at Vanderbilt.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Amy and Taylor and I went to Nashville, rented an Airbnb.

  • Hi, my name is Kathleen and I'm from Nashville, TN.

Surface Forms

Nashville main

Etymology

Nashville comes from General Nash and the ending -ville, which means 'town'. So Nashville originally meant 'Nash's town' and is the town named after him.