Crossword clues for savannah
savannah
- Georgia's oldest city
- City captured by Sherman
- U.S. port
- Safari locale
- Port of Georgia
- Port captured in Sherman's March to the Sea
- Junction of the Seneca and Tugaloo
- Georgia state college
- Georgia port
- First steamship to cross the Atlantic
- 'Today' co-host Guthrie
- 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' setting
- Georgia border river
- Southern city that's the setting for "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
- Oldest city in Georgia
- A port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river
- A river in South Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic
- A flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions
- Dixie port
- City founded by Oglethorpe: 1733
- A vehicle used by groundsman, ultimately, has pulled up outside grassy area
- Treeless plain
- City in Georgia
- City of Georgia
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.]
Savannahs are clear pieces of land without woods.
--Dampier.
Savanna flower (Bot.), a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites.
Savanna sparrow (Zo["o]l.), an American sparrow ( Ammodramus sandwichensis or Passerculus savanna) of which several varieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States.
Savanna wattle (Bot.), a name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
port city in U.S. state of Georgia, from savana, name applied to the Native Americans in the area by early European explorers, perhaps from a self-designation of the Shawnee Indians, or from the European topographical term (see savannah).
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).
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of savanna English)
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 2038
Land area (2000): 3.126293 sq. miles (8.097062 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003460 sq. miles (0.008962 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.129753 sq. miles (8.106024 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66044
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.941066 N, 94.830873 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64485
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Savannah
Housing Units (2000): 57437
Land area (2000): 74.742188 sq. miles (193.581369 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.365406 sq. miles (8.716362 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 78.107594 sq. miles (202.297731 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69000
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 32.050706 N, 81.103762 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 31401 31405 31406 31409 31410 31411
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Savannah
Housing Units (2000): 147
Land area (2000): 0.443339 sq. miles (1.148242 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.443339 sq. miles (1.148242 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70576
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.965249 N, 82.365168 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44874
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Savannah
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: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.223674 N, 88.237011 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38372
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Savannah
Wikipedia
Savannah or savanna is a type of grassland.
Savannah may also refer to:
Shannon Michelle Wilsey (October 9, 1970 – July 11, 1994), better known by her stage name Savannah, was an American pornographic film actress who starred in over 100 videos during her career. One of the most prominent Adult industry models of her time, she achieved notoriety within her short (1990–1994) career due to her onscreen presence and personal life. In January 2002, AVN ranked her at #19 on their list of the top 50 porn stars of all time.
Wilsey reportedly took her stage name from Savannah Smiles (1982), a movie she enjoyed. She died in 1994 in the hospital after a suicide attempt.
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.
Savannah is a feminine given name, taken from either the name of the city of Savannah, Georgia or savanna, meaning a large, grassy plain ecosystem. The name was the 39th most popular name for baby girls born in the United States in 2014. It was also among the top hundred names for girls in Canada and Australia in 2006. The name has been in use in the United States since at least the late 19th century, according to Social Security Administration records.
Savannah is a 2013 family historical drama film directed, produced and written by Annette Haywood-Carter. It is based on the true story and the book Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter by John Eugene Cay Jr. It stars Jim Caviezel, Jaimie Alexander, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jack McBrayer and Sam Shepard. It was released by Ketchup Entertainment on 23 August 2013 in the US.
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.