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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A town of eastern Massachusetts on the Concord River west-northwest of Boston. An early battle of the American Revolution was fought here on April 19, 1775. In the 19th century the town was noted as an intellectual and literary center.
  • The capital of New Hampshire, in the south-central part of the state on the Merrimack River. It became the capital in 1808.

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  • proper noun The state capital of New Hampshire
  • proper noun A city in Northern California
  • proper noun A city in Massachusetts and a site of the Battle of Lexington and Concord

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Examples

  • CONCORD -- A man waiting for his wife to get out of surgery at John Muir Medical Center's Concord campus was robbed at knifepoint early Thursday in the hospital's parking lot, Concord police Cpl. Kerry Cerletti said.

    KTVU.com - Local News 2008

  • CONCORD -- A man waiting for his wife to get out of surgery at John Muir Medical Center's Concord campus was robbed at knifepoint early Thursday in the hospital's parking lot, Concord police Cpl. Kerry Cerletti said.

    KTVU.com - Local News 2008

  • CONCORD -- A man waiting for his wife to get out of surgery at John Muir Medical Center's Concord campus was robbed at knifepoint early Thursday in the hospital's parking lot, Concord police Cpl. Kerry Cerletti said.

    KTVU.com - Local News 2008

  • CONCORD -- A man waiting for his wife to get out of surgery at John Muir Medical Center's Concord campus was robbed at knifepoint early Thursday in the hospital's parking lot, Concord police Cpl. Kerry Cerletti said.

    KTVU.com - Local News 2008

  • CONCORD - The pastor at New Gilead Church in Concord, Jeffrey J. Richards, has written a new book titled "War Time Preaching and Teaching."

    WSOCTV.com - Local News 2010

  • CONCORD - The pastor at New Gilead Church in Concord, Jeffrey J. Richards, has written a new book titled "War Time Preaching and Teaching."

    WSOCTV.com - Local News 2010

  • On hearing about Phillips 'past, which included a conviction in Concord, N.H., in

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • No, Professor Chomsky is inclined to believe there is more and stronger anti-imperialist sentiment today than in Concord, Massachusetts in 1846, when Thoreau spent his night in jail, or even in 1967, when thousands of young men decided to leave their country rather than be drafted, and Chomsky himself risked a long prison sentence for counselling them.

    Christopher Lydon: Noam Chomsky: the American Socrates on an Upbeat (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010

  • No, Professor Chomsky is inclined to believe there is more and stronger anti-imperialist sentiment today than in Concord, Massachusetts in 1846, when Thoreau spent his night in jail, or even in 1967, when thousands of young men decided to leave their country rather than be drafted, and Chomsky himself risked a long prison sentence for counselling them.

    Christopher Lydon: Noam Chomsky: the American Socrates on an Upbeat (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010

  • The government in Concord never lets the people vote on important legislation they make all of the decisions.

    Clinton warns against violent anti-government attitude 2010

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