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Arlington

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Ar·ling·ton  (ärlng-tn)
1. A town of eastern Massachusetts, a residential suburb of Boston. Population: 41,100.
2. A city of northern Texas midway between Dallas and Fort Worth. It is an important manufacturing center. Population: 367,000.
3. A county and unincorporated city of northern Virginia across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Mainly residential, it is the site of Arlington National Cemetery, where American war dead and other notables, including William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy, are buried. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier commemorates members of the Armed Forces killed in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Population: 200,000.

Arlington [ˈɑːlɪŋtən]
n
(Placename) a county of N Virginia: site of Arlington National Cemetery
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Noun1.Arlington - a city in northern Texas between Dallas and Fort Worth
Lone-Star State, Texas, TX - the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico


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At the corner of Arlington Street our contingent got out and strolled into the Green Park.
They walked about, afterwards on the splendid terrace that surrounds the Capitol, the great marble floor on which it stands, and made vague remarks--Pandora's were the most definite--about the yellow sheen of the Potomac, the hazy hills of Virginia, the far-gleaming pediment of Arlington, the raw confused- looking country.
 
 
 
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