washington
/ˈwɑʃɪŋtən/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.08 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Capital: Olympia. Largest city: Seattle.
Countable; Uncountable
name
The federal government or administrative authority of the United States. From the capital city of Washington, D.C.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The Skills Center, which is located on Amazon’s corporate headquarters campus in Seattle, Washington, and opens to the public November 22, is the first of its kind for the company. It’s part of a larger commitment to train 29 million people globally in cloud computing by 2025 that AWS made last year."
- "Taiwanese presidents, including Tsai, have a record of travelling through the U.S. en route to other countries, usually for a day or two, though the U.S. government has generally avoided meeting senior Taiwanese officials in Washington."
- "George Washington, the first president of the United States, and commanding general during its war of independence."
- "Bond grinned again as he thought of Damon's exasperation at having to dish out a lot of soft soap to Washington when he probably had plenty of other Anglo-American snarls to disentangle."
- "’Poor Mexico‘ President Porfirio Diaz (1828-1915) was to sigh, ‘so far from God, so near to the USA‘, and even the Latin-American states which felt themselves to be on closer terms with the Almighty were increasingly aware that in this world Washington was what they had chiefly to keep their eye on."
- "He could open that footlocker once in awhile^([sic]) and look at actual cash, loads of bills, tens, twenties, eagles, Grants, Lincolns, Washingtons."
Etymology
Washington (the town in Tyne and Wear, northeast England): probably from the Old English place name Hwæssingatūn (literally “a settlement of the household of *Hwæssa”), from *Hwæssa (a Saxon chieftain's name) + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“homestead, settlement”). It was attested in 1096 as Wasindone. *Hwæssa is of uncertain origin, said to possibly correspond to waþ (“hunt”) + sige (“victory”), or possibly related to hwæte (“wheat”). There are other theories; more on Wikipedia. The surname derives from the town, and most places in the United States are named for George Washington.
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɑʃɪŋtən/
- British English: /ˈwɒʃɪŋtən/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Slang
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.