Savannah meaning

sə-vănə
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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(place) River forming the border between Ga. & S.C., flowing southeast into the Atlantic: 314 mi (505 km)
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(place) Seaport in SE Ga., near the mouth of this river.
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Alternative spelling of savanna.
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The name of a river and several cities in the United States.
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A female given name from the word savannah or from the place name; also spelled Savanna.
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A domestic cat breed.
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Origin of savannah

  • < ? a name for the Shawnees in an unidentified Amerindian language

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

Savannah Sentence Examples

  • The march concluded with the occupation of Savannah on the loth.

  • Savannah was reached in December.

  • Hammond 1 has constructed a table from information supplied by the secretaries of the cotton exchanges at New York, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston, showing the sales of " spot " cotton at those ports for the twenty-two years between 1874-1875 and 1895-1896, and in all cases an absolute decline is evident.

  • (In Thousand Statistical Bales of 500 lb each.) Galveston and Savannah have risen considerably in relative importance of late years.

  • Several plans were made to invade South Carolina and Georgia, but none matured until 1778, when an expedition was organized which co-operated with British forces from New York in the siege of Savannah, Georgia.

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