JAMESTOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jamestown mean? 

• JAMESTOWN (noun)
  The noun JAMESTOWN has 1 sense:

1. a former village on the James River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607

  Familiarity information: JAMESTOWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAMESTOWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former village on the James River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

hamlet; village (a settlement smaller than a town)

Holonyms ("Jamestown" is a part of...):

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)