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Dashwood

Dashwood proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Dashwood (plural Dashwoods)

  1. A surname.
    • Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for...1811, Jane Austen, chapter 11, in Sense and Sensibility

Forms of Dashwood

pluralDashwoods

Origin of Dashwood

A variant of Ashwood, with fused French preposition de (“of”).

Questions about Dashwood

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

Words near Dashwood in the dictionary

  1. dasht
  2. Dasht-e Kavir
  3. dashtop
  4. dashtops
  5. Dashu
  6. Dashwood
  7. Dashwoods
  8. dashy
  9. Dasi
  10. dasia
  11. dasian

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