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Carnegie

/kɑːˈnɪɡi/US/ˈkɑɹnəɡi/

Carnegie proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Carnegie (countable and uncountable, plural Carnegies)

  1. A surname.
  2. A ghost town in San Joaquin County, California; the area is now part of Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area.
  3. An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Georgia.
  4. A ghost town in Rock County, Minnesota.
  5. A town in Caddo County, Oklahoma.
  6. A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
  7. An unincorporated community in the town of Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin.
  8. A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Glen Eira, Victoria, Australia.

Forms of Carnegie

pluralCarnegies

Origin of Carnegie

Possibly from Gaelic cathair an eige, meaning "fort at the gap".

Words formed from Carnegie

Phrases with Carnegie

Questions about Carnegie

What does Carnegie mean?
Carnegie means a surname.
What part of speech is Carnegie?
Carnegie is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Carnegie?
Carnegie is pronounced /ˈkɑɹnəɡi/ (US).

Words near Carnegie in the dictionary

  1. Carneal
  2. Carneals
  3. Carneau
  4. Carneaux
  5. Carnegian
  6. Carnegie
  7. Carnegie libraries
  8. Carnegie library
  9. Carnegie Unit
  10. Carnegie Units
  11. carnegieite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Carnegie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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