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Seattle

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • Canada/[-ɾɫ]/
  • //siˈætl̩//

A seaport and the largest city in Washington, United States, and the county seat of King County.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A seaport and the largest city in Washington, United States, and the county seat of King County.

    Doga instructors are not required to complete certification, though teacher training seminars do exist, like ones taught by Brenda Bryan, 43, a yoga and doga instructor in Seattle who has just written a book on the subject.

    As I waited to meet with Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky, on the 25th floor of an office building in downtown Seattle, I stared out at the city’s waterfront and thought: God fucking damn it.

Etymology

Named after Chief Seattle, from Lushootseed siʔaɬ.

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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).