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Owensboro

Owensboro

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A city in northwest Kentucky on the Ohio River known for tobacco
  • proper noun
  • /ˈoʊənzbəroʊ/
: Owensboro
  • Passionist Nuns of Saint Joseph Monastery in the Diocese of Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
  • Owensboro, Ky.
  • Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Owensboro, KY

This is Jordan Sapp out of Owensboro, KY Gang gang.

Examples

  • We're opening at the Owensboro Drive-in Dinner Theatre.

    Outrageous! (1977)

  • So I drove up to Owensboro the next morning by myself and found the lawyer's office, three doors down from the justice's office where we'd been married.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • We never do get up to Owensboro anymore.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The lawyer who called was from Owensboro.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Go call the trucks down from Owensboro.

    Maggie (2015)

  • Owensboro Police are asking for your help in locating a missing man.

    Blog text (12)

  • Then one day, I was hitching to Owensboro for no reason in particular, and the truck I was riding in broke down near Habit.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Library collections and staff are spread over seven locations: the main library, the Visual and Performing Arts Library, the Education Library, and Special Collections on the main campus in Bowling Green, as well as regional campuses in Glasgow, Elizabethtown, and Owensboro.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Wesleyan College in Delaware, Ohio; Denison College in Granville, Ohio; and Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro, Kentucky.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Many students from the University of Kentucky travel to Owensboro for the annual tobacco festival.

Surface Forms

Owensboro main

Etymology

Owensboro comes from the last name Owen (or Owens) plus the ending -boro, which means 'town' like the word 'borough'. So the name originally meant 'Owen's town', which is why it is the name of the city today.