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Newport News   /nˈupɔrt nuz/   Listen
Newport News

noun
1.
A port city in southeastern Virginia at the mouth of the James River off Hampton Roads; large shipyards.





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"Newport News" Quotes from Famous Books



... ports of embarkation were established, one with headquarters at Hoboken, N. J., and the other at Newport News, Va., each under the ...
— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish
... accompany him to Newport News to witness the launching of a new type of battleship. It was said to be, and probably was, impenetrable. Experts who had tested a model built on a large scale had declared that this invention would render obsolete every battleship in existence. ...
— Philip Dru: Administrator • Edward Mandell House
... Union mustered out," Is the inscription on an unknown grave At Newport News, beside the salt-sea wave, Nameless and dateless; sentinel or scout Shot down in skirmish, or disastrous rout Of battle, when the loud artillery drave Its iron wedges through the ranks of brave And doomed battalions, storming the redoubt. Thou unknown hero sleeping by the sea In thy forgotten ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Words linked to "Newport News" :   port, Old Dominion, metropolis, Virginia, VA, Old Dominion State, urban center, city


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