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savannah
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Savannah is an American prime time television drama that ran from January 21, 1996 to February 24, 1997 on The WB . It was created by Constance M. Burge and produced by Aaron Spelling .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Savanna \Sa*van"na\, n. [Of American Indian origin; cf. Sp. sabana, F. savane.] A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees. [Spelt also savannah ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also savanna , "treeless plain," 1550s, from Spanish sabana , earlier zavana "treeless plain," from Taino (Arawakan) zabana . In U.S. use, especially in Florida, "a tract of low-lying marshy ground" (1670s).
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 6917 Housing Units (2000): 3206 Land area (2000): 5.728337 sq. miles (14.836323 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 5.728337 sq. miles (14.836323 sq. km) FIPS code: 66720 Located within: ...
Usage examples of savannah.
From Lasulu to Bir Oassa was about 800 miles and we flew over the broad strip of concrete thrusting incongruously through mangrove swamp, rain forest, savannah and the scrubby fringes of desert country.
Keller pulled Savannah toward him, the micro-gate spiraled down to a dot, twinkled, turned over once with a sense of purpose, and winked out Where it had been just an instant ago, the deck hatch folded open and Shucorion reappeared, with absolutely no idea of what he had almost bumped his head into.
Now, when those young men come back from Mozambique or Zambia, picking their way across the minefields and scrambling down into jungles or flat, hot savannah, they don't go home to their villages but stay in the bush to fight the war of liberation.
Wild and sultry, like Savannah, unpredictable and deceivingly delicate, fragility in the guise of unforgiving toughness.
Seized by a thought, Gonner described Schlitze, the lumberman from Savannah.
And General Khamsin, almost drunk with the thoughts of victory, had increased the numbers moving across the Savannah River.
Minid sentry, I walked back toward Lake Kiboko, venturing quite often into the savannah bordering the forest strip to the south.
I could still tell Savannah about Nast vanished when we walked into the living room.
Now Shaw was dead, Nast was standing around outside, and Sandford was searching, with great reluctance, for Savannah.
And Shig walked across the savannah enclosure as if each crackling grass stem gave off sparks.
None rang a bell until Savannah bragged about having been to the home of hip-hop music mogul Taye Rollins at least twice.
Wright, president of the State Industrial College, Savannah, Georgia, is a pioneer in the work of uplifting the Negro youth, and his excellent work recently begun at the state college is already teeming with fruit.
He stared out frantically at the earth beneath, glimpsing a blotch of white in a savannah off to his right and in the same instant recognizing another airtruck banking beside him, the insignia of his own Irmandades bright on its side.
I believe Baltimore and Savannah limit, northward and southward, the region wherein the maturing process can be thoroughly perfected.
In this part of the State--though far removed from each other--were the prisons of Andersonville, Savannah, Millen and Blackshear, in which we were incarcerated one after the other.