Gallatin

[ gal-uh-tin ]

noun

1. Albert, 1761–1849, U.S. statesman: Secretary of the Treasury 1801–13.
2. a town in N Tennessee.
3. a river in NW Wyoming and SW Montana, flowing NW to join the Jefferson and Madison rivers in forming the Missouri River. 120 miles (193 km) long.

Example Sentences

Deneen Barr, whose 80-year-old father was among the first to die at Gallatin, said regulators should have done far more to hold the facility accountable.

From Washington Post

Gallatin gives in the Powhatan dialect the word for mountain as pomottinke, doubtless another form of the same.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Gallatin has proposed the term “Algonkin-Lenape,” as a philological denomination for this important family.

From Project Gutenberg

They named the forks of the river Gallatin, Madison, and Jefferson, in honor of the statesmen of those names.

From Project Gutenberg

Following the instructions given to King, Gallatin used the 250,000 pounds as the basis of settlement.

From Project Gutenberg

These languages are often confined to quite small tribes; their origin is quite correctly explained by Mr. Gallatin.

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