Boone
Americannoun
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Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer, especially in Kentucky.
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Pat, born 1934, U.S. singer.
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a city in central Iowa.
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a town in NW North Carolina.
noun
Example Sentences
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Lennon, who’d run elections in Boone County, Missouri, for seven years, had heard the tool might not be accurate.
From Salon
Sometimes I was Daniel Boone; then there would be spells of Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, the Last of the Mohicans, and Tarzan of the Apes.
From Literature
Those include the Pro Bowl Games, a Super Bowl innovation summit, an NFL awards show and a raft of concerts by superstars including Sting, Post Malone, The Killers, Benson Boone and Green Day.
This time her 343rd “charge” is a hapless 87-year old CEO oil tycoon K. J. Boone unwilling to pass over from the “baffling country” of terminal illness toward its “inevitable occurrence.”
From Los Angeles Times
Boone, who is nearing the end in his Texas mansion.
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