Definition of Greenville

1. Noun. A town in northwest South Carolina in the Piedmont.

Generic synonyms: Town
Group relationships: Palmetto State, Sc, South Carolina

2. Noun. A city in eastern North Carolina; tobacco market.
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Nc, North Carolina, Old North State, Tar Heel State

3. Noun. A town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River to the north of Vicksburg.
Generic synonyms: Town
Group relationships: Magnolia State, Mississippi, Ms

Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenville

Greenland whale
Greenland wolf spiders
Greenlander
Greenlanders
Greenlandic
Greenlandic Eskimo Pidgin
Greenlandish
Greenleaf
Greenough microscope
Greenpeace
Greenpeacer
Greenpeacers
Greens
Greensboro
Greenstone
Greenville (current term)
Greenwich
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time Signal
Greenwich Village
Greeny
Greeves
Greg
Greg Norman
Gregarina
Gregarinia
Gregarinida
Gregg
Gregg Shorthand

Literary usage of Greenville

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"State of South Carolina, County of Greenville. Know all men by these presents, that we, Wm. F. Bowe and TC Page, contractors and partners doing business ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"The Court: I charge you, before ihe defendants can prevent a recovery, it would be incumbent upon them to show by testimony that the city of Greenville knew ..."

3. A History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860 by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1908)
"Greenville seemed at the outset to offer the best objective, ... In this expectation the company was given the name, the Greenville and Columbia. ..."

4. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"Tho Greenville high school, formerly in name and still practically the preparatory ... It is the seat of Greenville and college, organized in 1868 by the of ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Greenville occupies the site of an Indian village and of Fort Greenville (built by General Anthony Wayne in 1793 and burned in 1796). ..."

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