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Glenn

UK/ɡlɛn/

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Glenn proper noun: an unincorporated community in Glenn County, California, United States.

Proper noun

Glenn

  1. An unincorporated community in Glenn County, California, United States.
  2. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Heard County, Georgia, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Illinois, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Ripley County, Missouri, United States.
  5. A surname from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Glen.
  6. A male given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular in the middle of the 20th century.
    • The Glen was the prettiest place she knew, so pretty she thought she ought to name her first baby after it. With another "n" added "to make it look more like a name", she called him Glenn Hammond Curtiss. The middle name was taken from the town itself, or its first settler, Lazarus Hammond.
    • The whimsy of naming her son after a local landmark was typical of Lua Curtiss. Then too a name like Glenn Hammond Curtiss has sweep and resonance, was much less commonplace than Harry or Jim or Charlie; or Frank, like his father.1937, Clara Studer, Sky storming Yankee, Stackpole sons, 1937, page 19
  7. (rare) A female given name transferred from the surname.

Examples of Glenn in a sentence

  • Of course Crake wasn't Crake yet, at that time; his name was Glenn.2003, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Virago, published 2004, →ISBN, page 80:
  • As Glenn Beck was bashing Sarvis as a GPS-installing LINO on his show,,^([sic]) his muckraking journalists at TheBlaze "revealed" that Sarvis was "bankrolled" by an "Obama bundler."2014 March 8, John Vaught Labeaume, “No Thanks, CPAC. This Libertarian Won't Attend a Conservative Love-Fest.”, in Reason, archived from...

Words formed from Glenn

Words that rhyme with Glenn

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Questions about Glenn

What does Glenn mean?
Glenn means an unincorporated community in Glenn County, California, United States.
How do you use Glenn in a sentence?
Of course Crake wasn't Crake yet, at that time; his name was Glenn.
What part of speech is Glenn?
Glenn is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Glenn?
Glenn is pronounced /ɡlɛn/ (UK).

Words near Glenn in the dictionary

  1. Glenlyon
  2. Glenmaggie
  3. Glenmaquin
  4. Glenmore
  5. Glenmore Park
  6. Glenn
  7. Glenn County
  8. Glenn Dale
  9. Glenna
  10. Glennies Creek
  11. Glenning Valley

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