Nassau

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The capital and largest city of the Bahamas on New Providence island

proper noun
/ˈnæsɔː/

: Nassau

Arch sent Vaughn Rhomer a postcard from Nassau, an aerial shot of sailboats and green, translucent sea.
Nassau, Bahamas

And if you don't have a reason to go, you can go through Cancun, Mexico City, Nassau or Santa Domingo.

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Examples

Then you will pay cash for a charter boat to Nassau.

21 Bridges (2019)
Three days and four nights in the Sheraton British Colonial, Nassau of the Bahamas, that was the prize.

Fiction book (1993)
- We're going to Nassau first thing tomorrow morning.

Money for Nothing (1993)
What brings you to Nassau, James?

Never Say Never Again (1983)
- How long are you staying in Nassau?

Thunderball (1965)
Gloria Lacy was born in Nassau in the prosperous 1920s and raised during the depression that followed.

Fiction book (1994)
We're going to Nassau first thing tomorrow morning.
What brings you to Nassau, James?
Two beach houses, one in Nassau, the other in Taormina.

Surface Forms

Nassau main

Etymology

Nassau comes from an old German place name that combines nass ('wet') and au ('meadow' or 'riverside land'). A noble family called the House of Nassau later gave the name to the city in the Bahamas, so thinking of a 'wet meadow' or the family's name makes the island capital easier to remember.