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geographical name(Ten-nes-see)river 652 miles (1049 kilometers) long in the eastern U.S. in Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky, flowing into the Ohio River
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geographical name(Ten-nes-see)state in the southeast central U.S.; capital Nashville area 42,144 square miles (109,153 square kilometers), population 6,346,105
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noun(Ten-nes-see)any of an American breed of large easy-gaited saddle horses largely of standardbred and Morgan ancestry —called also Tennessee walker
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geographical name(Ten-nes-see)system of canals and natural watercourses 234 miles (374 kilometers) long from the Tennessee River on the Tennessee—Mississippi border to the Tombigbee River in west central Alabama
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biographical name(Ten-nes-see)Tennessee 1911—1983 originally Thomas Lanier Williams American dramatist