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Kingston

Kingston

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The capital and largest city of Jamaica in the Caribbean on the southeast coast
  • proper noun
  • /ˈkɪŋstən/
translation icon : Kingston
  • As one drives around Kingston these days, it seems so: some things are the same, some not.
  • Kingston, Jamaica
  • the city of Kingston
  • a university in Kingston

Hi guys, this is Stacy and I'm hailing from Kingston, Jamaica.

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Examples

  • In Jamaica, 54 children were sampled from three schools in urban areas of Kingston, the largest city in Jamaica.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Upon his return to Kingston in February 1737, he picked up where he had left off.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Yeah, and this is in Kingston as well.

  • And I thought it moving from Kingston now, because I was in the heart of Kingston.

  • So, yeah, we got, we had to get a church like the, the biggest church in Kingston to hold everybody for the service.

  • A friend of mine makes them up in Kingston.

  • Now, he lives in one of the biggest homes in Kingston.

  • Hi guys, this is Stacy and I'm hailing from Kingston, Jamaica.

  • We end up going in this thrift shop in downtown Kingston and I met Gil Willard.

  • Your Pan Am 323 just landed in Kingston, Jamaica.

Synonyms

capital of Jamaica
vsKingston
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A city in the southeast of Jamaica called Kingston that is the country's capital

is the proper place name used instead of the descriptive phrase

Compounds

A city and large port in northern England, commonly called Hull

A city and large fishing port in northeastern England known as Hull

Surface Forms

Kingston main

Etymology

Kingston comes from old English parts king and tun, where king means 'a ruler' and tun means 'town' or 'farm'. So Kingston originally meant 'the king's town', which helps explain why places called Kingston are towns or cities.