Tennessee /ˌtɛnəˈsiː/ noun3 •A state of the United States.Fa la la la Fa la la lee Now let me go, my honey oh back to Tennessee It's beefsteak when I'm workin, whiskey when I'm dry, and sweet heaven when I die — 2011 •A river in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky, United States, that flows from eastern Tennessee into the Ohio River. •The Tennessee warbler, Oreothlypis peregrina. formsTennessees