noun

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