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Jamestown

American  
[jeymz-toun] / ˈdʒeɪmzˌtaʊn /

noun

  1. a village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607; restored 1957.

  2. a city in SW New York.

  3. a city in central North Dakota.

  4. a seaport in and the capital of St. Helena, in the S Atlantic Ocean.

Jamestown British  
/ ˈdʒeɪmzˌtaʊn /

noun

  1. a ruined village in E Virginia, on Jamestown Island (a peninsula in the James River): the first permanent settlement by the English in America (1607); capital of Virginia (1607–98); abandoned in 1699

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Jamestown Cultural  

  1. The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia. Jamestown was named for King James I of England. It was destroyed later in the seventeenth century in an uprising of Virginians against the governor.

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