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Gallatin

[ gal-uh-tin ]

/ ˈgæl ə tɪn /

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noun

Albert, 1761–1849, U.S. statesman: Secretary of the Treasury 1801–13.

a town in N Tennessee.

a river in NW Wyoming and SW Montana, flowing NW to join the Jefferson and Madison rivers in forming the Missouri River. 120 miles (193 km) long.

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How to use Gallatin in a sentence

Deneen Barr, whose 80-year-old father was among the first to die at Gallatin, said regulators should have done far more to hold the facility accountable.
As pandemic raged and thousands died, government regulators cleared most nursing homes of infection-control violations|Debbie Cenziper, Joel Jacobs, Shawn Mulcahy|October 29, 2020|Washington Post
Gallatin gives in the Powhatan dialect the word for mountain as pomottinke, doubtless another form of the same.
The Myths of the New World|Daniel G. Brinton
Mr. Gallatin has proposed the term “Algonkin-Lenape,” as a philological denomination for this important family.
The Indian in his Wigwam|Henry R. Schoolcraft
They named the forks of the river Gallatin, Madison, and Jefferson, in honor of the statesmen of those names.
Historic Adventures|Rupert S. Holland

Following the instructions given to King, Gallatin used the 250,000 pounds as the basis of settlement.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920|Various
These languages are often confined to quite small tribes; their origin is quite correctly explained by Mr. Gallatin.
Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, Part III (the Text Being Chapters XXVIII-XXXIII of the London Edition, 1843, and the Appendix a Combination of the Appendices of the London and German [Coblentz, 1839] Editions)|Maximilian, Prinz von Wied