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Mobile

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//məʊˈbiːl//
  • United States//moʊˈbiːl//

A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama.

    Oh, Mama / Is this really the end? / To be stuck here inside of Mobile / With the Memphis blues again

Etymology

From the name of (Mobile Bay, from the name of) the Mobile tribe, perhaps from the name of a Native town somewhere in what is now central Alabama, various spelled Mabila or Maubila.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).