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Brockville

Brockville proper noun: a city in eastern Ontario, Canada.

Proper noun

Brockville

  1. A city in eastern Ontario, Canada.
  2. An outer suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

Origin of Brockville

From the surname Brock + -ville. *In Ontario, named after Isaac Brock, major general and temporary administrator of the province of Upper Canada. Formerly named Elizabethtown, then a village. *In Dunedin, named after settler Frederick Brock-Hollinshead.

Questions about Brockville

What does Brockville mean?
Brockville means a city in eastern Ontario, Canada.
What part of speech is Brockville?
Brockville is a proper noun.

Words near Brockville in the dictionary

  1. Brockport
  2. brockram
  3. brockrams
  4. brocks
  5. Brockton
  6. Brockville
  7. Brockway
  8. Brockways
  9. Brockweir
  10. Brockwell
  11. Brockwells

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