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say it: JAYMZ-town
jamestown is a noun meaning "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". It is pronounced /ˈdʒeɪmzˌtaʊn/ — JAYMZ-town. It carries one recorded sense.
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 jamestown 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.