tennessee has definitions from the fields of government,geography
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[ noun ] (government,geography) a state in east central United States

Synonyms

tn Volunteer_State

Used in print

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

Others who wrote_of low characters and low life included Thomas_Bangs_Thorpe , creator of the Big_Bear of Arkansas and Tom_Owen , the Bee-Hunter ; Johnson_Jones_Hooper , whose character Simon_Suggs bears a close kinship to Flem_Snopes in both his willingness to take cruel advantage of all and sundry and the sharpness with which he habitually carried_out his will ; and George_Washington_Harris , whose Tennessee hillbilly character Sut_Lovingood perpetrated more unmalicious mischief and more unintended pain than any other character in literature .

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[ noun ] (geography) a river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary of the Ohio River in western Kentucky

Synonyms

Tennessee_River

Related terms

river Kentucky

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