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Mountcastle

Mountcastle proper noun: a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Proper noun

Mountcastle (countable and uncountable, plural Mountcastles)

  1. A suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
  2. An unincorporated community in New Kent County, Virginia, United States.
  3. A surname from Irish.

Forms of Mountcastle

pluralMountcastles

Origin of Mountcastle

Perhaps a habitational surname from a now lost place, from mount + castle. Alternatively, a further Anglicization of the Irish surname Mountcashell.

Questions about Mountcastle

What does Mountcastle mean?
Mountcastle means a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
What part of speech is Mountcastle?
Mountcastle is a proper noun.

Words near Mountcastle in the dictionary

  1. Mountbatten pinks
  2. Mountbatten-Windsor
  3. mountboard
  4. mountboards
  5. Mountbolus
  6. Mountcastle
  7. Mountcastles
  8. Mountcharles
  9. mountdown
  10. mountebank
  11. mountebanked

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