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Roseau

American  
[roh-zoh] / roʊˈzoʊ /

noun

  1. a seaport on and the capital of Dominica.


Roseau British  
/ rəʊˈzəʊ /

noun

  1. the capital of Dominica, a port on the SW coast: botanical gardens. Pop: 19 400 (2001 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Roseau Valley facility is being created through a public-private partnership between the Dominican government and US-Israeli renewable energy company Ormat Technologies.

From BBC • May 14, 2025

There were no TVs in the village of St. Joseph, about 10 miles from the capital, Roseau, so the adults huddled around two radios to follow events in London.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023

A person works on a Polaris ATV assembly line at its manufacturing and assembly plant in Roseau, Minnesota, U.S.

From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2021

She had heard that the City Council had already voted to begin placing the Warroad legal ads in The Roseau Times-Region, the paper for the rival town 20 miles to the west.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019

The market place at Roseau is a large square court close to the sea, well paved, surrounded, by warehouses, and luxuriantly shaded by large overhanging trees.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

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