Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The capital of Barbados, in the West Indies. It was founded by the British in 1628.
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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun capital of Barbados; a port city on the southwestern coast of Barbados
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Examples
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"But you walk into T.J. Maxx in Bridgetown and it's like Christmas in there."
Southampton Feels Wintertime Blues Kavita Mokha 2010
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The main highway near Bridgetown is cluttered with auto dealerships, squat office buildings, and boxy gas stations, and the low coastal hills are dotted with red-tile-roofed mini-estates corralled in tidy subdivisions.
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The main highway near Bridgetown is cluttered with auto dealerships, squat office buildings, and boxy gas stations, and the low coastal hills are dotted with red-tile-roofed mini-estates corralled in tidy subdivisions.
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Speaking of bridges, it IS known as Bridgetown – 12 to be exact!
Archive 2009-05-01 e d b m 2009
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Speaking of bridges, it IS known as Bridgetown – 12 to be exact!
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He leased out the family sugar plantation and settled in an area called Bridgetown, where he established himself as a credit agent for other sugar planters.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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Coming to the curve and turning up the second half of the boomerang, we are almost immediately in Bridge-street, a name well known in the famine time; not for anything very peculiar to itself, but because it leads directly to the suburb known as Bridgetown, in which the poorest inhabitants resided, and where the famine revelled -- hideous, appalling, and triumphant.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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Boden and Fleck show the strangeness of a place like Iowa for a foreign young man like Santos; yet they are seduced by the charm of the "Bridgetown" stadium (it's the wonderfully picturesque Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, Iowa).
unknown title 2009
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Contrasted are the fortunes of wealthy white owner at the former British garrison and his poorer black counterpart as they ready horses for action at the six furlong-long course in the Barbadian capital, Bridgetown.
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The Bridgetown weather held up India's attempts to establish a first-innings lead in the second Test as West Indies reached stumps on a rain-depleted second day at the Kensington Oval on 98 for five.
Ishant Sharma strikes twice for India as soggy West Indies struggle 2011
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