Jamestown

American  

[jaymz-taun] / ˈdʒeɪmzˌtaʊn /

noun

1. a village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607; restored 1957.

2. a city in SW New York.

3. a city in central North Dakota.

4. a seaport in and the capital of St. Helena, in the S Atlantic Ocean.

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Jamestown British  

/ ˈdʒeɪmzˌtaʊn /

noun

1. a ruined village in E Virginia, on Jamestown Island (a peninsula in the James River): the first permanent settlement by the English in America (1607); capital of Virginia (1607–98); abandoned in 1699

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Jamestown Cultural  

1. The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia. Jamestown was named for King James I of England. It was destroyed later in the seventeenth century in an uprising of Virginians against the governor.

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Through club owner Tony Bloom's Jamestown Analytics, the performance of pretty much any player - or coach - who is in a professional league can be monitored.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

After all, such data is Jamestown Analytics stock-in-trade...

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Professional gambler Tony Bloom bought a 29% non-voting share in Hearts and provided access to his Jamestown Analytics data firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

George grew up on a tobacco plantation approximately 30 miles southwest of Jamestown, Va., where in 1619 some of the first enslaved Africans in British North America were sold to colonists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

The first Jamestown colonizers were among the many early arrivals who could not have survived without the help of Indigenous peoples.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz