Washington

  1. Proper noun.  George Washington, the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army of the American rebels and first President of the United States of America, from 1789 to 1797.
  2. Proper noun.  Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States since 1800.
  3. Proper noun.  (context, by synecdoche) The government or administrative authority of the United States.
  4. Proper noun.  A (USstate) Capital: Olympia; largest city: Seattle.
  5. Proper noun.  A town in the county of Tyne and Wear in the Northeast of England.
  6. Proper noun.  (surname, from Old English) .
  7. Proper noun.  (given name, male) popular during the first century of American independence, also in the form George Washington.

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