Huntsville

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proper noun

A city, the county seat of Madison County, Alabama, United States.

OriginFrench ville ← Middle French ville ← Old French ville →
CommonScrabble 16
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A city, the county seat of Madison County, Alabama, United States.

    Sidewalks in Huntsville were mostly decorative. People drove their SUVs to grocery stores two blocks away, their air-conditioning on full blast.

    2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 103
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    His desire to shed light on the proliferation of license plate readers in his neighborhood in Huntsville, Ala., this year spurred an idea for a crowdsourced database where people across the world can upload the locations of the readers.

    2024 November 14, Nathan Solis, “Are automated license plate readers in your city? Here’s how to find out”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2024
  2. A city, the county seat of Madison County, Arkansas, United States.
  3. A community in Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Schuyler County, Illinois, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Indiana, United States.
  7. An unincorporated community in Reno County, Kansas, United States.
  8. A city, the county seat of Randolph County, Missouri, United States.
  9. An unincorporated community in Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States.
  10. A village in Logan County, Ohio, United States.
  11. A town, the county seat of Scott County, Tennessee, United States.
  12. A city, the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States.
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    There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again.

    2007, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (motion picture), spoken by Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones)
  13. A town in Weber County, Utah, United States.
  14. An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington, United States.
  15. A former community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States.
  16. A town in Muskoka district municipality, Ontario, Canada.

Origin

  1. EnglishHunt
  2. Proto-Indo-European*weyḱ-
  3. Proto-Italic*weikslā
  4. Latinvīlla
  5. Old Frenchville
  6. Middle Frenchville
  7. Frenchville
  8. EnglishHuntsville

From Hunt + -s- + -ville.

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Cite this entry
APA

Huntsville. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Huntsville

MLA

“Huntsville.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Huntsville. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Huntsville,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Huntsville.

Source: Huntsville on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.