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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast Rhode Island at the mouth of Narragansett Bay south-southeast of Providence. Settled in 1639, it was an important economic center in pre-Revolutionary times and in the 1800s became a fashionable summer resort where the wealthy built palatial “cottages.”
- A city of southeast Wales on an inlet of the Severn estuary northeast of Cardiff.
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- proper noun A common place name or element of a place name (i.e. Newport Beach, Newport Bay).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a resort city in southeastern Rhode Island; known for the summer homes of millionaires; important yachting center
- noun a port city in southeastern Wales
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NEWPORT - Italianfest could draw as many as 100,000 people to Newport this week, organizers said, and will provide an opportunity for the city to showcase itself.
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NEWPORT - Italianfest could draw as many as 100,000 people to Newport this week, organizers said, and will provide an opportunity for the city to showcase itself.
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NEWPORT - For the next Blue Monday concert in Newport Monday, KASU Radio presents a band that was founded in Newport in the 1950s and made their first Sun recording in 1956 - Sonny Burgess and the Legendary Pacers.
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NEWPORT - Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates finished a weeklong road show on Friday with a stop at the Naval War College in Newport, where he said he wants a military budget that focuses on the two wars the country is fighting and those it is likely to fight in the future instead of expensive, high-technology weapons systems.
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NEWPORT - Delaware State Police say a man shot in a Newport storage unit is in grave condition at Christiana Hospital.
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NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL 50 (August 1 - 2) in historic Newport, RI.
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NEWPORT - Those in charge of building the new courthouse addition in Newport have asked the Newport City Commission to issue bonds to fund the $30 million construction.
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NEWPORT - Newport jazz and folk festival founder George T. Wein, 83, yesterday said he plans to resume his leadership role in the events he sold in 2007.
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NEWPORT - Leaders from seven Northern Kentucky cities met on a bocce court in Newport on Wednesday to compete and kick off this year's Newport Italianfest.
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For example, the first piece, which The Atlantic published today, begins in Newport, which is the very place where Tocqueville arrived in America.
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