Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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 1800s.
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- proper noun The name of a
river and severalcities in theUnited States . - proper noun A female
given name from the wordsavannah or from the place name; also spelledSavanna . - noun A
domestic cat breed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river
- noun a river in South Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic
- noun a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions
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Examples
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MAY 20, 1997; SAVANNAH, TN: Thirty-four individuals arrested on felony drug charges following a 6-month "Operation Crack of Dawn" effort for selling crack cocaine and marijuana in and around public housing developments in Savannah and Hardin County.
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Another great event in Savannah history was the departure from that port, in 1819, of the _City of Savannah_, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.
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SAVANNAH, GA., on Savannah river eighteen miles from the ocean, and ninety-six miles South-West of Charleston, S. C., is the largest, commercial city in the State.
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SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - Moving back home was supposed to be the easy part, but some residents at the Woods of Savannah are finding that's not the case.
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SAVANNAH, GA (December 16, 2009) - Savannah firefighters who work Christmas day will be getting a little help in preparing a holiday meal thanks to the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation, Inc.
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Of the town of Savannah, the Baron Von Reck favors us with the following impressions: "I went to view this rising Town, _Savannah_, seated upon the Banks of a River of the same Name.
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I took a Low Country cooking class in Savannah a couple of years ago and pecan pie was on the agenda.
Apples & Leaves Pie Top Cutter and a Giveaway! | Baking Bites
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Flannery grew up — in Savannah and in Atlanta and, from 1938, in the Cline mansion in Milledgeville — with black servants floating around and a sense of herself as part of the genteel, bigoted, spottily educated stratum of landed whites.
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Also, AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams lists a renovated 19th-century townhouse in Savannah, Ga., and his longtime home in Fort Myers, Fla.
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We just got back from a trip in Savannah, GA -- I had no idea that banana pudding was so big in the South.
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