Usually means: Island, historic whaling hub, Massachusetts.
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  1. nantucket: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Nantucket: Merriam-Webster
  3. Nantucket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Nantucket: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Nantucket: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Nantucket, nantucket: Wordnik
  8. Nantucket: Wiktionary
  9. Nantucket: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Nantucket: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Nantucket: Dictionary.com
  12. Nantucket: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Nantucket (album), Nantucket (band), Nantucket (disambiguation), Nantucket (ship), Nantucket (steamboat), Nantucket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Nantucket: Rhymezone
  15. nantucket: FreeDictionary.org
  16. nantucket: Mnemonic Dictionary
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▸ noun:  A resort island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States, formerly a major whaling port.
▸ noun:  A census-designated place in the north-middle part of Nantucket in Nantucket County, Massachusetts, comprising about 12% of the land area of the island.
▸ noun:  Ellipsis of Nantucket County., a combined town and county that includes the island of Nantucket, along with Tuckernuck and Muskeget. [one of 14 counties in Massachusetts, USA, located on the island of Nantucket and two other islands. It is coterminous with the town of Nantucket, and is known as the Town and County of Nantucket.]

Similar:
Cape Cod and the Islands, Cape Cod, Holy Island, Cape Cod Bay, Naushon, Elizabeth Islands, Block Island, Prudence Island, Quonset Point, Aquidneck Island, more...

Opposite:
Non-Nantucket, off-island, mainland

Types:
whaling, seal hunting, whale oil, spermaceti, ambergris, whalebone, more...

Phrases:
Nantucket Sound, Nantucket County, Nantucket sleigh ride, Nantucket sleighride, Nantucket sleigh-ride, more...

Adjectives:
old, century, historic, early, quaint, nearby, little, third, beloved, broader, colonial

Colors:
    navy blue,     coral pink,     ocean blue,     shell pink, more...


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Similar:
Cape Cod and the Islands, Cape Cod, Holy Island, Cape Cod Bay, Naushon, Elizabeth Islands, Block Island, Prudence Island, Quonset Point, Aquidneck Island, more...

Opposite:
Non-Nantucket, off-island, mainland

Types:
whaling, seal hunting, whale oil, spermaceti, ambergris, whalebone, more...

Phrases:
Nantucket Sound, Nantucket County, Nantucket sleigh ride, Nantucket sleighride, Nantucket sleigh-ride, There once was a man from Nantucket, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, more...

Adjectives:
old, century, historic, early, quaint, nearby, little, third, beloved, broader, colonial

Colors:
    navy blue,     coral pink,     ocean blue,     shell pink, more...



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