Washington
WordNet
noun
(1) The federal government of the United States
(2) The capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791
(3) A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
(4) 1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)
(5) United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)
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Etymology
Habitational surname from the Old English place name "settlement of (a person named) Wassa".
Proper noun
- Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States since 1800.
- The government or administrative authority of the United States.
- A Capital: Olympia.
- A town in the county of Tyne and Wear in the Northeast of England.
- popular during the first century of American independence, also in the form George Washington.