Word.ws English Dictionary

DeKalb

DeKalb proper noun: a surname. Alternative form of de Kalb. Also the ellipsis of DeKalb County.

Proper noun

DeKalb (countable and uncountable, plural DeKalbs)

  1. (countable) A surname. Alternative form of de Kalb.

Also used as

DeKalb is also the ellipsis of DeKalb County.

Forms of DeKalb

pluralDeKalbs

Origin of DeKalb

From de Kalb.

Phrases with DeKalb

Questions about DeKalb

What does DeKalb mean?
DeKalb means a surname. Alternative form of de Kalb.
What part of speech is DeKalb?
DeKalb is a proper noun.

Words near DeKalb in the dictionary

  1. dekadrachms
  2. dekagram
  3. dekagramme
  4. dekagrammes
  5. dekagrams
  6. DeKalb
  7. DeKalb County
  8. DeKalbs
  9. dekaliter
  10. dekaliters
  11. dekalitre

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: DeKalb (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “DeKalb.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dekalb. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.