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Mount Vernon

  1. home & burial place of George Washington in N Va., on the Potomac, near Washington, D.C.
  2. city in SE N.Y.: suburb of New York City: pop. 68,000

    Etymology: after the historic site

Etymology: after Brit Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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