TENNESSEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tennessee mean? 

• TENNESSEE (noun)
  The noun TENNESSEE has 2 senses:

1. a state in east central United States

2. a river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary of the Ohio River in western Kentucky

  Familiarity information: TENNESSEE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENNESSEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in east central United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Tenn.; Tennessee; TN; Volunteer State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Tennessee"):

Tennessee; Tennessee River (a river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary of the Ohio River in western Kentucky)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a national park in Tennessee and North Carolina that includes the highest mountain in the eastern United States)

Chattanooga (a city in eastern Tennessee)

Columbia (a town in west central Tennessee)

Jackson (a town in western Tennessee)

Johnson City (a town in northeastern Tennessee)

Knoxville (a city in eastern Tennessee on the Tennessee River)

Memphis (largest city of Tennessee; located in southwestern Tennessee on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River)

capital of Tennessee; Nashville (capital of the state of Tennessee; located in the north central part of the state on the Cumberland River; known for country music)

Clinch River (a river that rises in southwestern Virginia and flows generally southwestward across eastern Tennessee to the Tennessee River)

Cumberland; Cumberland River (a river that rises in southeastern Kentucky and flows westward through northern Tennessee to become a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Kentucky)

Domain member region:

battle of Pittsburgh Landing; battle of Shiloh; Shiloh (the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory)

battle of Chattanooga; Chattanooga (in the American Civil War (1863) the Union armies of Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman under the command of Ulysses S. Grant won a decisive victory over the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg)

Holonyms ("Tennessee" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

Holonyms ("Tennessee" is a member of...):

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary of the Ohio River in western Kentucky

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Tennessee; Tennessee River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Tennessee" is a part of...):

Bluegrass State; Ken.; Kentucky; KY (a state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses)

Tenn.; Tennessee; TN; Volunteer State (a state in east central United States)

 Context examples 

Similarly, tennessine is named after the US state of Tennessee where chemical research is commonly conducted.

(IUPAC proposes four new chemical element names, Wikinews)

A census division of the United States consisting of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

(East South Central States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D., of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, and Ian A. Wilson, D. Phil., of The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California, led the team.

(Human antibody reveals hidden vulnerability in influenza virus, National Institutes of Health)

Researchers from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville say the Cuban boa, the largest native terrestrial predator on the island they are named after, coordinate their hunts in the island’s bat caves.

(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)

With assistance from collaborators at Tennessee State University and in Geneva, Switzerland, they were able to measure the star around which the planet orbits to gain a clearer picture of whether life could exist there.

(Searching for Life on Wolf 1061 Exoplanet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Biologists Jennifer Brisson of the University of Rochester and Benjamin Parker of the University of Tennessee studied pea aphids and uncovered genes that influence whether aphids produce wingless or winged offspring in response to their environment.

(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)

This terrible secret society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A man named Biloxi. 'Blocks' Biloxi, and he made boxes—that's a fact—and he was from Biloxi, Tennessee.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)