Word: Washington Part of Speech: name 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. Pronunciation: /ˈwɑʃɪŋtən/, /ˈwɔʃɪŋtən/, /wɔɹʃɪŋtən/, /ˈwɒʃɪŋtən/ 1. A state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Capital: Olympia. Largest city: Seattle. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. 2. Washington, D.C. (the capital city of the United States). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. 3. Washington, D.C. (the capital city of the United States). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An English habitational surname from Old English. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: George Washington, the first president of the United States, and commanding general during its war of independence. 5. The federal government or administrative authority of the United States. From the capital city of Washington, D.C. Labels: countable, figuratively, metonymically, uncountable Example: 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. Example: ’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. 6. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 14. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 15. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 16. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 17. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 18. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 19. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 20. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 21. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 22. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 23. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 24. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 25. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 26. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 27. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 28. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 29. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 30. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 31. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 32. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 33. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 34. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 35. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 36. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 37. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 38. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 39. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 40. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 41. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 42. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 43. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 44. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 45. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 46. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 47. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 48. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 49. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 50. A male given name transferred from the surname, popular during the first century of American independence, given in honor of George Washington. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 51. Ellipsis of University of Washington. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable