| Definitions | proper noun
- w:George Washington, George Washington, the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army and first President of the United States of America, from 1789 to 1797.
- Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States since 1800.
- (context, by synecdoche) The government or administrative authority of the United States.
- "Washington"s conclusion that Israel likely misused U.S.-made cluster munitions by firing them at civilian areas in Lebanon has brought new pressure on Israel to review its wartime practices." " http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/israel_cluster_bombs Cluster-bomb report weighs on Israel, Yahoo News, January 30, 2007.
- A (USstate) Capital: Olympia.
- A town in the county of Tyne and Wear in the Northeast of England.
- (given name, male) popular during the first century of American independence, also in the form George Washington.
Translations: Etymology: Habitational surname from the Old English place name "settlement of (a person named) Wassa".
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