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Selma (sel′mə)

noun

a feminine name

Etymology: < ? Gr selma, a ship

Selma2 definition

Selma (sel′mə)

city in SC Ala.: site of a voter registration drive led by Martin Luther King, Jr., & starting point for a civil-rights march to Montgomery, Ala. (1965): pop. 21,000

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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