Usually means: Town, pivotal in civil rights.
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  1. Selma: Merriam-Webster
  2. Selma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Selma: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Selma: Vocabulary.com
  5. Selma, selma: Wordnik
  6. Selma: Wiktionary
  7. Selma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Selma: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Selma: Dictionary.com
  10. Selma (Bijelo Dugme song), Selma (film), Selma (lake monster), Selma (name), Selma (sea serpent), Selma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Selma: Rhymezone
  12. selma: FreeDictionary.org
  13. selma: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Selma: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Selma: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. SELMA: Acronym Finder

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  1. Selma: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Selma)

noun:  (countable) A female given name.
noun:  (countable) A surname.
noun:  A placename
noun:  A community of Nova Scotia, Canada.
noun:  A village in Graubünden canton, Switzerland.
noun:  A place in the United States.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Dallas County, Alabama; named for James Macpherson's Ossianic poem The Songs of Selma.
noun:  A city in Fresno County, California; named for early resident Selma Michelson.
noun:  A city in Texas.
noun:  A town in North Carolina; named for the city in Alabama.
noun:  A town in Indiana.
noun:  A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon.
noun:  A census-designated place in Virginia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Arkansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Iowa.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Kansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for the place in the Ossian cycle.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Ohio.
noun:  (US, politics, figuratively) A confrontation where authorities brutally repress those wanting civil rights, similar to Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.

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