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Sa⋅lem

  [sey-luhm]
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–noun
1. a seaport in NE Massachusetts: founded 1626; execution of persons accused of being witches 1692; home of Nathaniel Hawthorne. 38,220.
2. a city in and the capital of Oregon, in the NW part, on the Willamette River. 89,233.
3. a town in SE New Hampshire. 24,124.
4. a town in SW Virginia, near Roanoke. 23,958.
5. a city in E Ohio. 12,869.
6. a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India. 308,303.
7. an ancient city of Canaan, later identified with Jerusalem. Gen. 14:18; Psalms 76:2.
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Or⋅e⋅gon

  [awr-i-guhn, ‑gon, or‑]
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1. a state in the NW United States, on the Pacific coast. 2,632,663; 96,981 sq. mi. (251,180 sq. km). Capital: Salem. Abbreviation: Oreg., Ore., OR (for use with zip code).
2. a city in NW Ohio. 18,675.
Origin:
1870–75

Related forms:
Or⋅e⋅go⋅ni⋅an  [awr-i-goh-nee-uhn, or‑] , adjective, noun
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Sa·lem   (sā'ləm)   

  1. A city of southern India southwest of Chennai (Madras). It is a trade center with an important textile industry. Population: 693,000.

  2. A city of northeast Massachusetts northeast of Boston. Founded in 1626, it is noted as the site of witchcraft trials (1692) and of Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables. Population: 41,300.

  3. The capital of Oregon, in the northwest part of the state on the Willamette River south-southwest of Portland. Founded c. 1840, it became territorial capital in 1851 and state capital in 1859. Population: 152,000.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Cultural Dictionary

Oregon

State in the northwestern United States bordered by Washington to the north, Idaho to the east, Nevada and California to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Its capital is Salem, and its largest city is Portland.

Note: Before the coming of the railroads, the Oregon Trail was used as an overland emigration route from the Missouri River to the Columbia River country (all of which was then called Oregon).
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Word Origin & History

Salem 
place mentioned in Gen. xiv.18, from Heb. Shalem, usually said to be another word for Jerusalem and to mean "peace" (cf. Heb. shalom, Arabic salaam). So common as a Baptist and Methodist meetinghouse name that by mid-19c. it (along with Bethel and Ebenezer) had come to be used in Britain generically to mean "non-conformist chapel."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

SALEM
["SALEM - A Programming System for the Simulation of Systems Described by Partial Differential Equations", S.M. Morris et al, Proc SJCC 33(1), 1968].
(1994-12-08)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Bible Dictionary

Salem

peace, commonly supposed to be another name of Jerusalem (Gen. 14:18; Ps. 76:2; Heb. 7:1, 2).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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