Tennessee
English
Etymology
From Cherokee ᏔᎾᏏ (tanasi), believed to mean “winding river”.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US) (file)
Proper noun
Tennessee
- A state of the United States.
- A river in the United States, that flows from eastern Tennessee into the Ohio River.
- A village in McDonough County, Illinois.
- A male given name
- A female given name
Derived terms
Translations
state
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Noun
Tennessee (plural Tennessees)
- The Tennessee warbler, Oreothlypis peregrina.
- 2005, Bill Thompson III et al., Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 303:
- The Nashville's cousin, the Tennessee warbler, is just as badly named: neither can be found in Tennessee, except during migration. Tennessees vary a lot in fall; some are almost pure white below, mimicking spring plumage, while immatures like the one pictured on page 304 can be quite yellow below.
See also
Further reading
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Tennessee.
Proper noun
Tennessee (genitive Tennessees)
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tennessee
- Tennessee (a state of the United States)
Declension
Inflection of Tennessee (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Tennessee | — | ||
genitive | Tennesseen | — | ||
partitive | Tennesseetä | — | ||
illative | Tennesseehen Tennesseeseen |
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singular | plural | |||
nominative | Tennessee | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Tennessee | — | |
gen. | Tennesseen | |||
genitive | Tennesseen | — | ||
partitive | Tennesseetä | — | ||
inessive | Tennesseessä | — | ||
elative | Tennesseestä | — | ||
illative | Tennesseehen Tennesseeseen |
— | ||
adessive | Tennesseellä | — | ||
ablative | Tennesseeltä | — | ||
allative | Tennesseelle | — | ||
essive | Tennesseenä | — | ||
translative | Tennesseeksi | — | ||
abessive | Tennesseettä | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tennessee m
- Tennessee (a state of the United States)
Portuguese
Proper noun
Tennessee m
- Tennessee (a river in the eastern United States)
- Tennessee (a state of the United States)
Spanish
Proper noun
Tennessee m
Related terms
See also
- Tennessee on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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- en:Tennessee, USA
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- fi:Tennessee, USA
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- it:Tennessee, USA
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- es:States of the United States
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