Chattanooga

American  

[chat-uh-noo-guh] / ˌtʃæt əˈnu gə /

noun

1. a city in SE Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: Civil War battle 1863.

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Chattanooga British  

/ ˌtʃætəˈnuːɡə /

noun

1. a city in SE Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: scene of two battles during the Civil War, in which the North defeated the Confederates, cleared Tennessee, and opened the way to Georgia (1863). Pop: 154 887 (2003 est)

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Chattanooga Cultural  

1. City in eastern Tennessee.

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Other Word Forms

• Chattanoogan adjective
• Chattanoogian adjective

Example Sentences

But the biggest winner in Chattanooga is the union.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Police officers were dispatched to a residence near Chattanooga in Tennessee on Thursday.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

The April 2025 sale of an IonQ system to a Chattanooga, Tenn., municipal power company, says Wolfpack, was funded two-thirds by IonQ itself, and one-third by the federal earmarks of a Tennessee congressman.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

“The only strategy the regime knows is repression,” said Saeid Golkar, an associate professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Iran expert.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

Here were out-of-town visitors from Omaha and Chattanooga, outraged over the price of their hot roasted chestnuts.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris