English > Tennessee: 2 senses > noun 1, location| Meaning | A state in east central United States. |
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| Synonyms | Volunteer State, TN, Tenn. |
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| Instance of | American state | One of the 50 states of the United States |
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| Member of | Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland | The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 |
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| Part of | South | The region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line |
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| United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A. | 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 |
| Parts | Chattanooga | A city in eastern Tennessee |
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| Clinch River | A river that rises in southwestern Virginia and flows generally southwestward across eastern Tennessee to the Tennessee River |
| Columbia | A town in west central Tennessee |
| 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 |
| Great Smoky Mountains National Park | A national park in Tennessee and North Carolina that includes the highest mountain in the eastern United States |
| 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 |
| Nashville, capital of Tennessee | capital of the state of Tennessee |
| Tennessee, Tennessee River | A river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville |
| Region of | Chattanooga, battle of 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 |
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| Shiloh, battle of Shiloh, battle of Pittsburgh Landing | The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862) |
| Spanish | Tennessee |
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| Catalan | Tennessee |
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