Tennessee

[ ten-uh-see ]

noun

1. a state in the southeastern United States. 42,246 sq. mi. (109,415 sq. km). : Nashville. : TN (for use with zip code), Tenn.
2. a river flowing from eastern Tennessee through northern Alabama, western Tennessee, and southwestern Kentucky into the Ohio near Paducah. 652 miles (1,050 km) long.

Tennessee

/ ˌtɛnɪˈsiː /

noun

1. a state of the E central US: consists of a plain in the west, rising to the Appalachians and the Cumberland Plateau in the east. Capital: Nashville. Pop: 5 841 748 (2003 est). Area: 109 412 sq km (42 244 sq miles) AbbreviationTennwith zip codeTN
2. a river in the E central US, flowing southwest from E Tennessee into N Alabama, then west and north to the Ohio River at Paducah: the longest tributary of the Ohio; includes a series of dams and reservoirs under the Tennessee Valley Authority. Length: 1049 km (652 miles)

Tennessee

1. State in the south-central United States bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north; North Carolina to the east; Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi to the south; and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. Its capital is Nashville , and its largest city is Memphis .

Notes

One of the Confederate states during the Civil War .

Example Sentences

Tennessee passed a law that allowed for criminal charges to be brought against pregnant women found to be taking illegal drugs.

From The Daily Beast

Those states include Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee.

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Harold Ford Jr. is a former U.S. Representative from Tennessee.

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Another dark horse, Tennessee Senator Al Gore, was finding little traction in his efforts to become a centrist alternative.

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Abortion will be on the ballot in Colorado, North Dakota, and Tennessee.

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There was hardly to be found in all Southern Tennessee a more contented, shiftless, ill-bestead family than theirs.

From Project Gutenberg

This valley extends for approximately three hundred and fifty miles to the borderline of Tennessee.

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An amusing incident occurred in the cars of the Virginia and Tennessee road, which must be preserved in print.

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A Tennessee planter gives the following description of making the plant bed as practised in his State.

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His principal hunting-ground was from the mouth of the Arkansas north to the Tennessee line.

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