Associations to the word «Decatur»

Wiktionary

DECATUR, proper noun. A city in Georgia, United States
DECATUR, proper noun. A city in Alabama, United States
DECATUR, proper noun. A surname​.

Dictionary definition

DECATUR, noun. United States naval officer remembered for his heroic deeds (1779-1820).
DECATUR, noun. A city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here.
DECATUR, noun. A town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope