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Pensacola

name · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˌpɛnsəˈkəʊlə/
  • rhymes with -əʊlə
  • CMU ARPABET: P EH2 N S AH0 K OW1 L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A city, the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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noun

Meaning 2

A Native American people who lived in the western part of what is now the Florida Panhandle and eastern Alabama for centuries before first contact with Europeans until early in the 18th century.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical, plural, plural-only

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3

noun

Meaning 3

a town in extreme northwest Florida

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: town

History

Etymology

From Choctaw pa̱shi (“hair (on the head)”) + okla (“people”). Literally, “people of the long hair”.

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