Bristol
Americannoun
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a seaport in Avon, in southwestern England, on the Avon River near its confluence with the Severn estuary.
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a city in central Connecticut.
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a township in southeastern Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
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a deepwater seaport in eastern Rhode Island.
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a city in northeastern Tennessee, contiguous to but politically independent of Bristol, Virginia.
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a city in southwestern Virginia, contiguous to but politically independent of Bristol, Tennessee.
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a bi-state region comprising the twin cities of Bristol, Tennessee, and Bristol, Virginia.
noun
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a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
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a unitary authority in SW England, created in 1996 from part of Avon county. Pop: 391 500 (2003 est). Area: 110 sq km (42 sq miles)
Example Sentences
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All are multi-instrumentalists, and their textural range is expanded further by heavy use of sampling, while the band’s genre-fluid tendencies may owe something to its origins in Bristol.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Two years on from suffering his cardiac arrest, Lockyer returned to football with Bristol Rovers.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Belugas in Bristol Bay show relatively small differences in size between males and females compared with some other populations.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
The Swedish firm has other BrainTransporter partnerships with Bristol Myers Squibb and Novartis to target Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
Lauren Bristol is beside me, behind the image of the mushroom cloud after the bombing of Hiroshima.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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