jamestown

Thân thiện

A small group of settlers builds a wooden fort near the river at Jamestown.

Definition

Proper noun 1. A historic settlement in Virginia, USA: The site of the first permanent English colony in North America, founded in 1607 on the James River. 2. A symbol of early American colonial history: Represents the beginning of sustained English colonization, encounters between European settlers and Native American populations, and the early struggles for survival in the New World.

Usage Examples

• As a subject:
• As an object of a preposition:
• In an attributive sense:

Advanced Usage

• "The Jamestown Colony": A common historical term specifying the colonial entity itself, not just the location.
  • The governance of the Jamestown Colony evolved under leaders like John Smith.
• Metonymic Use: The name can be used to represent the early colonial period or its challenges.
  • Their project failure was a corporate Jamestown, a promising venture that collapsed from within.

Variants and Related Words

• Jamestowner (noun, historical): A rare term for an inhabitant or settler of Jamestown.
• James River (proper noun): The river on which Jamestown was founded, named for King James I of England.

Synonyms

• Colony (in this specific historical context):
• Settlement:

Related Phrases and Concepts

• "The Starving Time": Refers to the winter of 1609-1610 at Jamestown, when many colonists died from famine and disease.
• John Smith / Pocahontas: Key historical figures associated with the early years of Jamestown.
• House of Burgesses: The first elected legislative assembly in the American colonies, established in Jamestown in 1619.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a former village on the James River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607

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