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Seattle

[ see-at-l ]

noun

  1. Seatlh, c1790–1866, Suquamish leader: Seattle, Washington, named after him.
  2. a seaport in W Washington, on Puget Sound.


Seattle

/ sɪˈætəl /

noun

  1. a port in W Washington, on the isthmus between Lake Washington and Puget Sound: the largest city in the state and chief commercial centre of the Northwest; two universities. Pop: 569 101 (2003 est)


Seattle

  1. The largest city in the state of Washington .


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Notes

Although no longer the headquarters of the Boeing Aircraft Company, the Seattle region still contains many Boeing facilities.

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Example Sentences

Strange as it may seem, I first pondered this question in the airport concourse at Seattle.

I was with Joe, an old friend, last week in Seattle to celebrate the restoration of that very first 747.

Fryberg was “a really good kid,” and “well liked,” according to someone who knew the family and spoke to The Seattle Times.

Seattle is one of the most recent, with its city council voting this year to adopt the indigenous version of the holiday.

In June 1909, Model Ts were two of the first three finishers in a grueling New York-to-Seattle rally.

He remembered a little friend back in Seattle to whom he had promised a bear-skin.

He managed to make his way to Seattle and in spite of his condition returned to Everett that same night.

After a brief conversation Mahler was deported to Seattle by the same car on which he had made the trip over.

Roberts ran down the street to the interurban depot, where he hid behind a freight car until just before the car left for Seattle.

As he had lied before he was not believed, but, as a test, Earl Osborne went from Seattle to open up the hall once more.

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