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Huntingdon

/ˈhʌn.tɪŋ.dən/

Huntingdon proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Huntingdon (countable and uncountable, plural Huntingdons)

  1. A surname.
  2. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, and former county town of Huntingdonshire (OS grid ref TL2372).
  3. A borough, the county seat of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  4. A town, the county seat of Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
  5. A community in the city of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, located on the US border and named after Collis Potter Huntington.
  6. A former township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, now part of Centre Hastings municipality (see there).
  7. A town in Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Montérégie region, Quebec, Canada, originally in Huntingdon County.
  8. A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  9. A rural locality south of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Forms of Huntingdon

pluralHuntingdons

Origin of Huntingdon

From Old English Huntandūn, equivalent to hunta (“hunter”) + dūn (“hill, mountain”).

Words formed from Huntingdon

Phrases with Huntingdon

Questions about Huntingdon

What does Huntingdon mean?
Huntingdon means a surname.
What part of speech is Huntingdon?
Huntingdon is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Huntingdon?
Huntingdon is pronounced /ˈhʌn.tɪŋ.dən/.

Words near Huntingdon in the dictionary

  1. hunting-crop
  2. hunting-crops
  3. hunting-horn
  4. hunting-horns
  5. Huntingdale
  6. Huntingdon
  7. Huntingdon and Peterborough
  8. Huntingdon County
  9. Huntingdon elm
  10. Huntingdon elms
  11. Huntingdon willow

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