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Griswood

Griswood 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 Griswood

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

Words near Griswood in the dictionary

  1. gristy
  2. Griswald
  3. Griswold
  4. Griswolds
  5. Griswoldville
  6. Griswood
  7. grisy
  8. grit
  9. grit cell
  10. grit cells
  11. Grit City

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Griswood (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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