Huntingdon en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /ˈhʌn.tɪŋ.dən/
Etymology
From Old English Huntandūn, equivalent to hunta (“hunter”) + dūn (“hill, mountain”).
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) A surname.
- (countable, uncountable) A market town and civil parish with a town council in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, and former county town of Huntingdonshire (OS grid ref TL2372).
- (countable, uncountable) A borough, the county seat of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- (countable, uncountable) A town, the county seat of Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
- (countable, uncountable) A community in the city of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, located on the US border and named after Collis Potter Huntington.
- (countable, uncountable) A former township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, now part of Centre Hastings municipality (see there).
- (countable, uncountable) A town in Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Montérégie region, Quebec, Canada, originally in Huntingdon County.
- (countable, uncountable) A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- (countable, uncountable) A rural locality south of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huntingdons | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Huntingdon and Peterborough · Huntingdon County · Huntingdonshire · Huntingdon elm · Huntingdonian