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Definition of Jamestown
1. Noun. A former village on the James River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607.
Group relationships: Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, Va, Virginia
Definition of Jamestown
1. Proper noun. The capital of the island Saint Helena. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jamestown
Literary usage of Jamestown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian by Edward King (1875)
"jamestown, the first prominent Anglo- Saxon settlement on this continent, is
to-day a melancholy nook where historic memories play at hide-and-seek among ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The next year he took out Lord Dcla- warr to jamestown, arriving just in time to
prevent the entire colony, with the governor, Sir Thomas Dale, ..."
3. American State Papers Bearing on Sunday Legislation by William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord (1911)
"OOO AGREED TO JUNE 29, 1906.1 That in aid of the said jamestown Tercentennial
Exposition the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby ..."
4. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"Bd. of jamestown exposition managers. 1607-1907: a descriptive catalogue of the
Massachusetts exhibit of colonial books at the jamestown tercentennial ..."
5. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1906)
"jamestown may be called the birthplace of the great American nation, for it is
the first place where buildings were erected and homes secured, ..."
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