arlington

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Definition of arlington in English English dictionary

Arlington National Cemetery (in Arlington County, Virginia) an American military cemetery, which includes among other things the tomb of the unknown soldiers

A place name

Unincorporated settlement (pop., 2000: 189,453), northern Virginia, U.S. Lying across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., the city is the capital of Arlington county, which was part of Washington, D.C., from 1789 to 1846, when it was returned to Virginia. It is the site of Arlington National Cemetery (located on the former estate of Robert E. Lee), Ronald Reagan National Airport, and numerous federal buildings, including the Pentagon

{i} name of several cities in various states of the United States

a city in northern Texas between Dallas and Fort Worth

Related Terms

Arlington Heights

A village of northeast Illinois, a manufacturing and residential suburb of Chicago. Population: 75,460

Arlington National Cemetery

a cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, where people who were in the US army, navy, air force, or government are sometimes buried

Edwin Arlington Robinson

born Dec. 22, 1869, Head Tide, Maine, U.S. died April 6, 1935, New York, N.Y. U.S. poet. He attended Harvard briefly, then he endured years of poverty and obscurity before his poetry began to attract attention. He is best known for short dramatic lyrics about the lives (mostly tragic) of the people in a small New England village; these include "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy." Among his collections are The Children of the Night (1897), The Man Against the Sky (1916), and Collected Poems (1921, Pulitzer Prize). He also wrote long narrative poems, including Merlin (1917), Lancelot (1920), The Man Who Died Twice (1924, Pulitzer Prize), Tristram (1927, Pulitzer Prize), and Amaranth (1934)

Hyphenation

Ar·ling·ton

Turkish pronunciation

ärlîngtın

Pronunciation

/ˈärləɴɢtən/ /ˈɑːrlɪŋtən/