Nashville

From Nash (“Francis Nash”) +‎ -ville.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnæʃˌvɪl/

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Nashville

1. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A city, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.
      1. The capital city of Tennessee.

         Synonym: Music City

         • 2024 November 19, Celeste Moure, “Kacey Musgraves’s Nashville”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 November 2024:

           “I always knew that Nashville would be a destination of some sort for me, that I would land there in terms of music,” said the singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves during a Zoom call.

   2. (metonymic) The country music industry.
   3. A city, the county seat of Howard County, Arkansas.
   4. A city, the county seat of Berrien County, Georgia.
   5. A city, the county seat of Washington County, Illinois.
   6. A town, the county seat of Brown County, Indiana.
   7. A city in Kansas.
   8. A village in Michigan.
   9. A city, the county seat of Nash County, North Carolina.
   10. A village in Ohio.
   11. A ghost town in Texas.
   12. A town in Forest County, Wisconsin.
2. A hamlet in Ontario, Canada.

• Nashville sound
• Nashvillian

Nashville (plural Nashvilles)

1. The Nashville warbler, Leiothlypis ruficapilla.
   • 2005, Bill Thompson III et al., Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 302:

     Of the three, the Nashville is probably easiest to identify. No matter what plumage it's in, the Nashville always sports a complete white to whitish eye-ring.