Associations to the word «Tennessee»

Wiktionary

TENNESSEE, proper noun. A state of the United States of America Capital: Nashville.
TENNESSEE, proper noun. A river flowing generally westward 652 miles from eastern Tennessee into the Ohio River in Kentucky.

Dictionary definition

TENNESSEE, noun. A state in east central United States.
TENNESSEE, noun. A river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary of the Ohio River in western Kentucky.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats