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Sa⋅van⋅nah

[suh-van-uh]
–noun
1. a seaport in E Georgia, near the mouth of the Savannah River. 141,634.
2. a river flowing SE from E Georgia along most of the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina and into the Atlantic. 314 mi. (505 km) long.
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Savannah River  
A river, about 505 km (314 mi) long, rising in northwest South Carolina and flowing southeast along the South Carolina-Georgia border to the Atlantic Ocean.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

savannah 
"treeless plain," 1555, from Sp. sabana, earlier zavana "treeless plain," from Arawakan (Haiti). In U.S. use, "a tract of low-lying marshy ground" (1671).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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