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say it: JAWRJ-town
georgetown is a noun meaning "a section of northwestern Washington, D.C.". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a section of northwestern Washington, D.C.
port city and the capital and largest city of Guyana
“the city was called Stabroek by the Dutch but was renamed Georgetown by the British in 1812”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for georgetown come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.