Meanings
- A number of places in the United States:
- A city, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.
- The capital city of Tennessee.
“I always knew that Nashville would be a destination of some sort for me, that I would land there in terms of music,” said the singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves during a Zoom call.
2024 November 19, Celeste Moure, “Kacey Musgraves’s Nashville”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2024Synonyms: Music City
- metonymicallyThe country music industry.
- A city, the county seat of Howard County, Arkansas.
- A city, the county seat of Berrien County, Georgia.
- A city, the county seat of Washington County, Illinois.
- A town, the county seat of Brown County, Indiana.
- A city, the county seat of Nash County, North Carolina.
- A ghost town in Texas.
- A town in Forest County, Wisconsin.
plural Nashvilles
- The Nashville warbler, Leiothlypis ruficapilla.
Of the three, the Nashville is probably easiest to identify. No matter what plumage it's in, the Nashville always sports a complete white to whitish eye-ring.
2005, Bill Thompson III et al., Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 302
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe capital city of Tennessee.
Origin
From Nash (“Francis Nash”) + -ville.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic نَاشْفِيل
- نَاشْفِيل (nāšfīl)A city
French Nashville
- NashvilleA city
Hawaiian Nakawila, Nasawila
- NakawilaA city
- NasawilaA city
Japanese ナッシュビル, ナッシュヴィル
- ナッシュビル (Nasshubiru)A city
- ナッシュヴィル (Nasshuviru)A city
Latin Nasburgum, Nasvilla
- NasburgumA city
- NasvillaA city
Polish Nashville
- NashvilleA city
Russian Нашвилл, Нэшвилл
- Нашвилл (Našvill)A city
- Нэшвилл (Nɛšvill)A city
Ukrainian Нешвілл, Нашвілл
- Нешвілл (Nešvill)A city
- Нашвілл (Našvill)A city
Cite this entry
Nashville. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nashville
“Nashville.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nashville. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Nashville,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nashville.
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