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Savannah

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Sa·van·nah  (s-vn)
A city of southeast Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah River. Founded by James Oglethorpe in 1733, it is the oldest city in Georgia and has been a major port since the early 19th century. Population: 128,000.

Savannah [səˈvænə]
n
1. (Placename) a port in the US, in E Georgia, near the mouth of the Savannah River: port of departure of the Savannah for Liverpool (1819), the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. Pop.: 131 510 (2000)
2. (Placename) a river in the southeastern US, formed by the confluence of the Tugaloo and Seneca Rivers in NW South Carolina: flows southeast to the Atlantic. Length: 505 km (314 miles)
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.SavannahSavannah - a port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river
Empire State of the South, Georgia, Peach State, GA - a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
2.SavannahSavannah - a river in South Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic
Palmetto State, SC, South Carolina - a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies
3.Savannahsavannah - a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions
grassland - land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life
Translations
savannah [səˈvænə] Nsabana f, pampa f (S. Cone), llanos mpl (Ven)
savannah savanna [səˈvænə] nsavane f
savannah savanna [səˈvænə] nsavana
savannah savanna [səˈvænə] nsavana


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By the time that their sailing-ship reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder.
So he stood waist-deep in the grass and looked regretfully across the rolling savannah and the soft-swelling foothills to the Lion's Head, a massive peak of rock that upreared into the azure from the midmost centre of Guadalcanar, a landmark used for bearings by every coasting mariner, a mountain as yet untrod by the foot of a white man.
In the first shade, where the savannah yielded to the dense mountain jungle, he had collapsed to die.
 
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