Roanoke

[ roh-uh-nohk ]

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noun

a city in SW Virginia.
a river flowing SE from western Virginia to Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. 380 miles (610 km) long.

In nearby Roanoke, I pulled my car off to the side of the road, listened to live radio reports from the scene and wept.

The cities of Danville, Fieldale and Roanoke are especially noted for their textiles.

Symphony orchestras furnish superb musical entertainment regularly in Richmond, Norfolk and Roanoke.

In two hours the spirit took its flight, and all that was mortal of John Randolph of Roanoke was hushed in death.

Grenville left one hundred and eight men to found a settlement on the island of Roanoke, and appointed Ralph Lane, governor.

Twenty years later the colonists at Jamestown were no more ready to labor at farming than those at Roanoke had been.

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