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Elizabethtown

American  
[ih-liz-uh-buhth-taun] / ɪˈlɪz ə bəθˌtaʊn /

noun

  1. a town in central Kentucky.


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It follows a report in The Sun saying that proposed new names included Elizabethtown, after the late Queen, Pankhurst, named after the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurt, and Athelstan, considered the first king of England.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Mr. Brown, a professor of history at Elizabethtown College, captures the social, political and economic currents that Roosevelt navigated during his career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

The warehouse in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, will open in late northern hemisphere summer, with the PrettyLittleThing brand, Boohoo's most popular in the United States, the first to go live.

From Reuters ● May 16, 2023

“We need to make certain that there’s not a stigma around mental health,” Craft, a former United Nations ambassador under ex-President Donald Trump, told reporters at a campaign event in Elizabethtown.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

Knox was turned away from Manhattan and wound up in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, where he spent two weeks in quarantine.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

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