Jacksonville
- proper noun
- /ˈdʒæksənˌvɪl/
- We are paid $20.00 per ton by the city of Jacksonville to process the material.
- Jacksonville, Florida
- the city of Jacksonville
- Jacksonville University
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Watch on YouTubeIf you lost a friend in Jacksonville, nobody would be like, oh, that's crazy.
- If you lost a friend in Jacksonville, nobody would be like, oh, that's crazy.
- It's not once you once you pass like Jacksonville, it becomes a different type of Florida.
- Big shout out to DJ and Lindsay down in Jacksonville, FL.
- My first interview, though, was in school in Jacksonville.
- I felt like I was trapped in a in a nightclub in Jacksonville, FL.
- I felt like I was trapped in a net in a nightclub in Jacksonville, FL.
- Various bases off the East Coast near Jacksonville and I forget where they're where they are, but you know, they just buzz right out there and they're essentially targets for us.
- If y'all say y'all the coach right in in Jacksonville and y'all coaching Travis, are y'all using him knowing he wants to play both ends of the ball?
Examples
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Tom Fulmer is the operations manager at the Enviro-Comp facility in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Yeah I'm lucky and I appreciate it but I went to Jacksonville couple of weeks ago.
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Then we start, the guys are up in Jacksonville doing their thing.
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So what was Special Forces doing in Jacksonville, anyway?
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But when I retired, I bought a home in Jacksonville, and my son was doing OK, my wife was doing all right.
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So now we moved to Jacksonville, sold my restaurants back to my partners, my shares.
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Hey, how far away is Jacksonville?
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In 1972, the newly founded University of North Florida in Jacksonville started a "Venture Studies" program.
Academic text (1998) -
I drove to Jacksonville, FL, waited in line like everybody else, and I thought I did pretty good, but evidently not.
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After finishing my work in the morning, I plan to visit Jacksonville for the weekend.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Jacksonville = Jackson (transparent) = Jackson + ville
The place name is a straightforward formation: the personal name 'Jackson' plus the place-name suffix '-ville' meaning 'town' or 'settlement'.
Etymology
Jacksonville comes from the name Jackson plus the ending -ville, which means 'town'. So Jacksonville simply means 'Jackson's town', which is why it is the name of a large city and port in Florida.