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Cornwallis

Cornwallis proper noun: an English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Cornish ancestry. Also the ellipsis of Cornwallis River.

Proper noun

Cornwallis

  1. An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Cornish ancestry.
  2. A neighbourhood of the City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia.
  3. A coastal settlement west of Auckland, Auckland region, New Zealand.
  4. A rural municipality in south-west Manitoba, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Cornwallis.
  5. An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States.

Also used as

Cornwallis is also the ellipsis of Cornwallis River.

Cornwallis is also the ellipsis of Cornwallis Island.

Cornwallis is also the ellipsis of Cornwallis Township.

Origin of Cornwallis

As with Cornwall, ultimately from Old English Cornwēalas (“Cornwall, inhabitants of Cornwall”).

Words formed from Cornwallis

  • Cornwallis Island
  • Cornwallis Park
  • Cornwallis River
  • Cornwallis Square
  • Cornwallis Township
  • Fort Cornwallis
  • Little Cornwallis Island

Questions about Cornwallis

What does Cornwallis mean?
Cornwallis means an English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Cornish ancestry.
What part of speech is Cornwallis?
Cornwallis is a proper noun.

Words near Cornwallis in the dictionary

  1. Cornwall Bridge
  2. Cornwall Island
  3. Cornwall stone
  4. Cornwallian
  5. Cornwallians
  6. Cornwallis
  7. Cornwallis Square
  8. cornwallite
  9. Cornwell
  10. Cornwells
  11. Cornwells Heights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cornwallis (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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