Associations to the word «Decatur»

Wiktionary

DECATUR, proper noun. A city in Georgia, United States
DECATUR, proper noun. A city in Alabama, United States
DECATUR, proper noun. A surname​.

Dictionary definition

DECATUR, noun. United States naval officer remembered for his heroic deeds (1779-1820).
DECATUR, noun. A city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here.
DECATUR, noun. A town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats