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Chapin

Chapin proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Chapin (plural Chapins)

  1. A surname.
    • Chapin met Nixon during his third year at USC. A year later, H.R. Halderman recruited Chapin to work on Nixon’s 1962 unsuccessful California gubernatorial campaign, and Chapin brought Segretti, and Ziegler along.2024 August 8, Jonathan van Harmelen, “The Little-Known Group That Pioneered Watergate’s Dirty Tricks—and Changed American Politics”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2024

Forms of Chapin

pluralChapins

Origin of Chapin

* As a Spanish and French surname, from the noun chapín (“type of overshoe”). * As an English surname, variant of Chopin, also found as the variants Chopping, Chappin.

Questions about Chapin

What does Chapin mean?
Chapin means a surname.
What part of speech is Chapin?
Chapin is a proper noun.

Words near Chapin in the dictionary

  1. chapette
  2. chapettes
  3. chapfallen
  4. chaphamaparvovirus
  5. chaphamaparvoviruses
  6. Chapin
  7. Chapins
  8. chapiter
  9. chapiters
  10. chapitre
  11. chapitres

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