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Evanston

Evanston proper noun: a southern suburb of the Town of Gawler, South Australia.

Proper noun

Evanston

  1. A southern suburb of the Town of Gawler, South Australia.
  2. A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
  3. A small community in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  4. A city in Cook County, Illinois; a suburb of Chicago.
    • Daniel Biss, the mayor of Evanston, Illinois, spoke about the incident in a video posted late Friday morning to his X account, saying: “Not only did they come with weapons and violence, show of force and drive a van into us, but then they teargassed us, and I have to tell you, it was terrifying.”...2025 September 19, Alisha Ebrahimji, Emma Tucker, “Chicago-area mayor says federal agents teargassed him at a protest outside an ICE facility”, in CNN, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2025
  5. An unincorporated community in Huff Township, Spencer County, Indiana.
  6. An unincorporated community in Breathitt County, Kentucky.
  7. A neighborhood of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio.
  8. A city, the county seat of Uinta County, Wyoming.

Origin of Evanston

From Evans + -ton.

Questions about Evanston

What does Evanston mean?
Evanston means a southern suburb of the Town of Gawler, South Australia.
What part of speech is Evanston?
Evanston is a proper noun.

Words near Evanston in the dictionary

  1. Evanses
  2. Evansford
  3. evansite
  4. Evanson
  5. Evansons
  6. Evanston
  7. Evansville
  8. Evansvillian
  9. Evanthia
  10. Evanton
  11. evap

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