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Griswald

Griswald is the alternative form of Griswold.

Meaning of Griswold

Proper noun

Griswold (countable and uncountable, plural Griswolds)

  1. An English habitational surname from Middle English from gris (“grey (from French, i.e., the language of the Royal Court after 1066”) + wold (“forest, e.g. “Yorkshire Wolds”).
  2. A town in New London County, Connecticut; named for Roger Griswold, 22nd Governor of Connecticut.
  3. A city in Iowa; named for railroad director J. N. A. Griswold.
  4. An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for local merchant James Griswold.
  5. A ghost town in California.
  6. An unincorporated community in Manitoba, Canada.

Questions about Griswald

What is Griswald the alternative form of?
Griswald is the alternative form of Griswold.

Words near Griswald in the dictionary

  1. gristmills
  2. Griston
  3. grists
  4. Gristwood
  5. gristy
  6. Griswald
  7. Griswold
  8. Griswolds
  9. Griswoldville
  10. Griswood
  11. grisy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Griswald (page history and authors); Griswold (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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