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Eastwood

/ˈiːstwʊd/

Eastwood proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Eastwood (countable and uncountable, plural Eastwoods)

  1. A surname.
  2. A suburban area of Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8389).
  3. A town and civil parish with a town council in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK4646).
  4. A small hamlet in Todmorden parish, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9625).
  5. A residential area in southwestern Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5560).
  6. A suburb of Sydney in the City of Ryde and City of Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.
  7. A locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.
  8. A suburb of Pretoria, South Africa.
  9. A community in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada.
  10. A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  11. A ghost town in San Diego County, California.
  12. A neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
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  1. A census-designated place in Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
  2. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
  3. An unincorporated community in Carter County, Missouri.
  4. A neighbourhood of Syracuse, New York.
  5. An unincorporated community in Brown County, Ohio.
  6. A neighbourhood of Dallas, Texas.
  7. A neighbourhood of Houston, Texas.

Noun

Eastwood (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) A brave, tough, hardy man.
    • Maniac, lunatic, call him Snoop Eastwood.1992, “Deep Cover”, in Deep Cover, performed by Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg, SOLAR Records
    • The name is Dre Eastwood, when I'm packing a gun.1992, “A Nigga Witta Gun”, in The Chronic, performed by Dr. Dre, Death Row Records

Verb

Eastwood (third-person singular simple present Eastwoods, present participle Eastwooding, simple past and past participle Eastwooded)

  1. To talk to an empty chair that represents a person who declined to appear

Forms of Eastwood

Proper noun
pluralEastwoods
Verb
third-person singular presentEastwoods
present participleEastwooding
past participleEastwooded
pastEastwooded

Origin of Eastwood

Compound of east + wood.

Questions about Eastwood

What does Eastwood mean?
Eastwood means a surname.
What part of speech is Eastwood?
Eastwood can be a proper noun, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce Eastwood?
Eastwood is pronounced /ˈiːstwʊd/.

Words near Eastwood in the dictionary

  1. eastward
  2. eastwardly
  3. eastwardmost
  4. eastwards
  5. eastwind
  6. Eastwood
  7. Eastwood's whip lizard
  8. Eastwood's whip lizards
  9. Eastwooded
  10. Eastwoodian
  11. Eastwooding

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