Brownsville
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- proper noun
- /ˈbraʊnzˌvɪl/
- I was born in Brownsville, Texas, where the Rio Grande flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
- Brownsville, Texas
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Examples
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Her family immigrated to Brownsville in 1910 and later moved to Houston, where she married Frank Alonzo.
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In the 1920s, he built and operated the Queen Theater on Main Street in Brownsville, the first theater in the valley to show talking movies.
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And Mike as a child had run the streets of Brownsville as a little boy.
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Says he can have us in Brownsville in less than three hours.
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It's a long way to Brownsville.
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I was born in Texas, near Brownsville.
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I'm from Brownsville myself, originally.
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U.S. Customs wants me to land in Brownsville.
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Chelo Silva was born in 1922 in Brownsville, Texas.
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Every Sunday, I walked from my home in Brownsville straight up Eastern Parkway to the Brooklyn Museum and the Botanic Garden.
Academic text (1998)
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Brownsville comes from the family name Brown plus the ending -ville, which means 'town'. You can see -ville in other place names like Jacksonville and Louisville, so Brownsville is simply 'Brown's town', which explains why it is the name of a city in Texas.