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Meaning of Roswell | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈɹɒzˌwɛl

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. A place in the United States:
  3. A city in Fulton County, Georgia.
  4. An unincorporated community in Canyon County, Idaho.
  5. A city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials.
  6. The most significant ufological event of a region.
  7. A village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
  8. A census-designated place in Miner County, South Dakota.

Equivalents

العربية روزويل

Examples

“(1997) So go on with your life / Forget that Roswell crap / Show love to the black suit / 'Cuz that's the Men In … Black "Men in Black" by Will Smith (1997)”
“Among the cases he examined was an incident that has come to be known as England’s Roswell.”
“Kazantsev’s story was for some unaccountable reason taken seriously in the West, leading to some enthusiasts referring to Tunguska as the Russian Roswell.”
“Dubbed “Mexico’s Roswell,” the mid-air collision near Coyame of an airplane and a UFO has been the subject of a major documentary for the History Channel’s UFO Hunters series in 2008, and numerous articles in newspapers, magazines, and Websites.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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