Used to form a name of an inhabited place, a town or city. · (figurative) Used with an adjective, noun, or gerund as a mildly intensifying locative, indicating a region or state of that kind.
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From Steuben + -ville, after Fort Steuben, which was named after Prussian army officer Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), who participated in the American Revolution.