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SELMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Selma mean?
• SELMA (noun)
The noun SELMA has 1 sense:
1. a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters
Familiarity information: SELMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Selma" is a part of...):
AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
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