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Salem

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Sa·lem  (slm)
1. A city of southern India southwest of Chennai (Madras). It is a trade center with an important textile industry. Population: 693,000.
2. A city of northeast Massachusetts northeast of Boston. Founded in 1626, it is noted as the site of witchcraft trials (1692) and of Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables. Population: 41,300.
3. The capital of Oregon, in the northwest part of the state on the Willamette River south-southwest of Portland. Founded c. 1840, it became territorial capital in 1851 and state capital in 1859. Population: 152,000.
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Noun1.SalemSalem - capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River
capital of Oregon
Beaver State, OR, Oregon - a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
2.Salem - a city in northeastern Massachusetts; site of the witchcraft trials in 1692
Bay State, Massachusetts, Old Colony, MA - a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
3.Salem - a city in southern India
Bharat, India, Republic of India - a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947


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{Foot Note: The Puritans had a liking for Biblical names for their children, and they sometimes gave names out of the Bible to places, Salem means Peace.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village; but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Such occasions might remind the elderly citizen of that period, before the last war with England, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship-owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin while their ventures go to swell, needlessly and imperceptibly, the mighty flood of commerce at New York or Boston.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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