Tennessee
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Etymology
From Cherokee ᏔᎾᏏ (tanasi), believed to mean “winding river”.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tennessee
- A state of the United States.
- A river in the United States, that flows from eastern Tennessee into the Ohio River.
- A village in McDonough County, Illinois.
- A male given name.
- A female given name.
Derived terms
Translations
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Noun
Tennessee (plural Tennessees)
- The Tennessee warbler, Oreothlypis peregrina.
- 2005, Bill Thompson III et al., Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 303:
- The Nashville's cousin, the Tennessee warbler, is just as badly named: neither can be found in Tennessee, except during migration. Tennessees vary a lot in fall; some are almost pure white below, mimicking spring plumage, while immatures like the one pictured on page 304 can be quite yellow below.
See also
| States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
| Federal district: Washington, D.C. |
| Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
Further reading
Etymology
Proper noun
Tennessee (genitive Tennessees)
- Tennessee (a state of the United States)
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tennessee
- Tennessee (a state of the United States)
Declension
| Inflection of Tennessee (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Tennessee | — | |
| genitive | Tennesseen | — | |
| partitive | Tennesseetä | — | |
| illative | Tennesseehen Tennesseeseen |
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| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Tennessee | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Tennessee | — |
| gen. | Tennesseen | ||
| genitive | Tennesseen | — | |
| partitive | Tennesseetä | — | |
| inessive | Tennesseessä | — | |
| elative | Tennesseestä | — | |
| illative | Tennesseehen Tennesseeseen |
— | |
| adessive | Tennesseellä | — | |
| ablative | Tennesseeltä | — | |
| allative | Tennesseelle | — | |
| essive | Tennesseenä | — | |
| translative | Tennesseeksi | — | |
| abessive | Tennesseettä | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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