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Dupont

Dupont proper noun: a surname from French.

Proper noun (1)

Dupont (countable and uncountable, plural Duponts)

  1. A surname from French.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. An unincorporated community in Adams County, Colorado, named after the DuPont company.
  4. A town in Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, named after the Du Pont family.
  5. An unincorporated community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, named, for want of a name, after a box of Dupont shotgun shells.
  6. A village in Putnam County, Ohio, named after Samuel Francis Du Pont.
  7. A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, named after the Dupont Explosives company.
  8. A rural community within Seymour, Sevier County, Tennessee, said to be derived from dew point.
  9. A town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: DuPont

DuPont

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of Dupont.

Forms of Dupont

pluralDuponts
alternative formDuPont

Origin of Dupont

Borrowed from French Dupont, meaning "of the bridge".

Words formed from Dupont

Questions about Dupont

What does Dupont mean?
Dupont means a surname from French.
What part of speech is Dupont?
Dupont is a proper noun.

Words near Dupont in the dictionary

  1. Duplock
  2. Duployan
  3. duply
  4. dupondii
  5. dupondius
  6. Dupont
  7. Dupont Circle
  8. duporthite
  9. duporthites
  10. dupped
  11. dupper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dupont (page history and authors); DuPont (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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