Jamestown

American  

[jeymz-toun] / 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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Example Sentences

The emergence of Hearts and the support they're getting from Tony Bloom and Jamestown Analytics is threatening to change the game in a very significant way.

From BBC

“In order to minimize casualties on the PLA side, they have to use robotic systems as a first wave of attack,” said Sunny Cheung, an open-source intelligence expert at the Washington think tank Jamestown Foundation.

From The Wall Street Journal

He grew up a poor “little nobody,” as he has described it, in Jamestown, a one-traffic-light town in North Carolina’s agricultural piedmont.

From Salon

Cheung, who is now a fellow at the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation, said China’s use of Hong Kong to tap U.S. capital could undermine U.S. interests.

From The Wall Street Journal

Located near public transportation, water and greenery, the fresh air and serene nature of the area has attracted AI entrepreneurs that want to collaborate in person, said Michael Phillips, principal and chairman of Jamestown.

From Los Angeles Times