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Kinnear

Kinnear proper noun: a surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Proper noun

Kinnear (countable and uncountable, plural Kinnears)

  1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
  2. An unincorporated community in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States.

Forms of Kinnear

pluralKinnears

Origin of Kinnear

Scottish habitational surname from Kinneir, in Fife, apparently from Scottish Gaelic ceann (“headland”) + iar (“west”).

Questions about Kinnear

What does Kinnear mean?
Kinnear means a surname from Scottish Gaelic.
What part of speech is Kinnear?
Kinnear is a proper noun.

Words near Kinnear in the dictionary

  1. kinnaris
  2. kinnatt
  3. Kinnaur
  4. Kinnaur District
  5. Kinnauri
  6. Kinnear
  7. Kinnears
  8. Kinneavy
  9. Kinneavys
  10. Kinnebrew
  11. Kinnebrews

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