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Meaning of Queenstown | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
  2. A town in West Coast council area, Tasmania, Australia.
  3. A hamlet in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
  4. A village in the Pomeroon-Supenaam region, Guyana.
  5. A resort town in Otago, New Zealand, situated on Lake Wakatipu, named after Queenstown in Ireland (now Cobh).
  6. A neighbourhood of Singapore.
  7. A town and city in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
  8. A small town in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
  9. An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Virginia.
  10. An unincorporated community in the town of Westboro, Taylor County, Wisconsin.
  11. A suburb of Blackpool, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3237).
  12. Former name of Cobh, a port town in County Cork in southern Ireland.
    historical
  13. Former name of Queenston, a rural community near Niagara Falls, Ontario, in Canada.
    historical

Examples

“His name came not from his looks, but from his childhood growing up in Queenstown—a remote copper mining town on the Tasmanian west coast, a land made in equal parts of rainforest and myth—where for a time his family had been so poor that they had only been able to afford sheepheads for food.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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