5. (noun)Washington, Booker T. Washington, Booker Taliaferro Washington United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
1. Washington capital of the United States, in the district of Columbia, on the leftbank of the Potomac, 35 in. SW. of Baltimore; was founded in 1791, and made the seat of the Government in 1800; it is regularly laid out, possesses a number of noble buildings, many of them of marble, the chiefbeing the Capitol, an imposing structure, where the Senate and Congress sit; near it, 1½ m. distant, is the White House, the residence of the President, standing in grounds beautifully laid out and adorned with fountains and shrubbery.
2. Washington a NW. State of the American Union, twice the size of Ireland; lies N. of Oregon; is traversed by the Cascade Mountains, the highest 8138 ft., and has a rugged surface of hill and valley, but is a great wheat-growing and grazing territory, covered on the W. by forests of pine and cedar; Olympia is the capital. Washington is the name of hundreds of places in the States.
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