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Dundas

Dundas proper noun: a habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Proper noun

Dundas (countable and uncountable, plural Dundases)

  1. (countable) A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
  2. A district and former town in Hamilton, Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Ontario, Canada.
  3. A city in Rice County, Minnesota.
  4. An unincorporated community in Vinton County, Ohio.
  5. An unincorporated community in Lunenburg County, Virginia.
  6. An unincorporated community in Woodville, Calumet County, Wisconsin.
  7. A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Parramatta, New South Wales.
  8. A rural locality in the Somerset Region of Queensland.
  9. A historical mining locality near Zeehan, western Tasmania, where dundasite was discovered.
  10. An abandoned town in Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.
  11. A local government area, Shire of Dundas, in the same region of Western Australia.

Forms of Dundas

pluralDundases

Origin of Dundas

The Scottish name is from Scottish Gaelic, from Old Irish dùn (“fort”) + deas (“south”), perhaps via Dundas Castle, while the places in Canada are named after Lord Melville, Henry Dundas, a Scottish politician.

Words formed from Dundas

Questions about Dundas

What does Dundas mean?
Dundas means a habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
What part of speech is Dundas?
Dundas is a proper noun.

Words near Dundas in the dictionary

  1. Duncumb
  2. Duncumbs
  3. duncy
  4. Dund
  5. Dundalk
  6. Dundas
  7. Dundas Valley
  8. Dundases
  9. dundasite
  10. Dundathu
  11. Dundathu pine

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