Jamestown

American  

[jeymz-toun] / ˈdʒeɪmzˌtaʊn /

noun

1. a village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607; restored 1957.

2. a city in SW New York.

3. a city in central North Dakota.

4. a seaport in and the capital of St. Helena, in the S Atlantic Ocean.

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Jamestown British  

/ ˈdʒeɪmzˌtaʊn /

noun

1. a ruined village in E Virginia, on Jamestown Island (a peninsula in the James River): the first permanent settlement by the English in America (1607); capital of Virginia (1607–98); abandoned in 1699

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Jamestown Cultural  

1. The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia. Jamestown was named for King James I of England. It was destroyed later in the seventeenth century in an uprising of Virginians against the governor.

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Example Sentences

His next book, “Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America,” will be published in June.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Hearts have benefited from the influence of Tony Bloom, whose use of Jamestown Analytics helped establish Brighton as a Premier League side and took Union Saint-Gilloise from the second tier to Belgian champions.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

The expertise of Bloom's Jamestown Analytics firm has already reaped reward as summer signings Claudio Braga and Kyziridis again shone.

From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025

Jamestown, a real estate and investment company, markets the Northern Waterfront an emerging AI hub after leasing more than 43,000 square feet of office space to AI companies.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

At Jamestown, Rowcraft managed, through inattentiveness, to sink his ship.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann