Tennessee

American  

[ten-uh-see] / ˌtɛn əˈsi /

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.

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Tennessee British  

/ ˌtɛnɪˈsiː /

noun

1. Abbreviation: Tenn, TN. 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)

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)

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Tennessee Cultural  

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.

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One of the Confederate states during the Civil War.

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The biggest specimen belonged to a Tennessee bottlebrush crayfish preserved in the collection at West Liberty University in West Virginia.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

In October 2023, the “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” star celebrated the family’s third anniversary of moving to Tennessee “to make a new home and create new memories.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Three teams are now 0-5, with the Los Angeles Chargers, Tennessee Titans and Miami Dolphins all losing again.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

They include a 2019 meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, with that state’s attorney general to discuss opioid litigation and a 2021 visit with unnamed U.S. senators in North Carolina.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

In 1870, Victoria Woodhull and her sister Tennessee Claflin used the money they had made on Wall Street to publish the newspaper Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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