Mount Vernon

noun

1. the home and tomb of George Washington in NE Virginia, on the Potomac, 15 miles (24 km) below Washington, D.C.
2. a city in SE New York, near New York City.
3. a city in S Illinois.
4. a city in central Ohio.
5. a town in NW Washington.

Mount Vernon

1. The home of George Washington ; a historical landmark in northeastern Virginia overlooking the Potomac River .

Example Sentences

May he rest in peace, and may his spirit live on in Mount Vernon and worldwide through the impact your music had on us all!

From Washington Post

The first thing I learned from the pathway’s interpretive signs was that George Washington — who lived just upriver at Mount Vernon and who grew up at Ferry Farm only 10 miles away — would have been familiar with Aquia Creek sandstone.

From Washington Post

When George Washington established the first commercial whiskey distillery at Mount Vernon post-presidency, he was guided by his farm manager, James Anderson, who learned distilling in his native Scotland.

From Washington Post

The most famous was Mansion House Farm, known today simply as Mount Vernon.

From Washington Post

The state rented the entire 180-room Drury Inn in Mount Vernon for 62 days for $727,175 but housed only six people there during that time.

From ProPublica

Thanks to Mark Santangelo and Mary Thompson of Mount Vernon for supplying historical research for this column.

From The Daily Beast

Washington gave his servants—and, yes, slaves—four days off to mark the holiday in broad Mount Vernon-wide celebration.

From The Daily Beast

But a few years of retirement brought Washington back to his beloved Mount Vernon, with its year-crowning Christmas cheer.

From The Daily Beast

Precisely 230 years ago today, he rode up to Mount Vernon to celebrate his first holiday at home after eight years of revolution.

From The Daily Beast

A British raid on Mount Vernon had stripped him of his livestock and many of his slaves.

From The Daily Beast

Then he went back to his farm at Mount Vernon, to take up again his usual work.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Washington had agriculture at his finger ends, and gave me some advice which he had found serviceable at Mount Vernon.

From Project Gutenberg

I suspected that his acres were not as broad, nor his produce as salable, as those of Mount Vernon.

From Project Gutenberg

He delighted to have him at his Mount Vernon home, and insisted that he should spend all his time there when out of school.

From Project Gutenberg

Often vessels anchored in the river, and the officers enjoyed the abundant hospitality of the Mount Vernon mansion.

From Project Gutenberg