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Fargo

US/ˈfɑɹɡoʊ/

Fargo proper noun: the largest city in North Dakota, United States, and county seat of Cass County.

Proper noun

Fargo

  1. The largest city in North Dakota, United States, and county seat of Cass County.
    • Maybe you've heard of Fargo from the movie or TV series, but you've never actually visited the real place.2023 January 14, Jayci, “First-timer's guide to Fargo”, in fargomoorhead.org
  2. A surname.
    • He was gut shot. Blood-caked fingers pressed over the wound, he turned toward Fargo, his revolver rising.2003, Jon Sharpe, Trailsman #261, The: Desert Death Trap, →ISBN

Origin of Fargo

Named for Northern Pacific Railway director and Wells Fargo Express Company founder William Fargo.

Words formed from Fargo

Questions about Fargo

What does Fargo mean?
Fargo means the largest city in North Dakota, United States, and county seat of Cass County.
What part of speech is Fargo?
Fargo is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Fargo?
Fargo is pronounced /ˈfɑɹɡoʊ/ (US).

Words near Fargo in the dictionary

  1. farfetches
  2. Farfor
  3. farforth
  4. fargard
  5. fargards
  6. Fargo
  7. Fargoan
  8. Fargoans
  9. fargoing
  10. fargood
  11. Fargunyah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Fargo (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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