Word.ws English Dictionary

Oglethorpe

Oglethorpe proper noun: a surname from Old Norse.

Proper noun

Oglethorpe (countable and uncountable, plural Oglethorpes)

  1. A surname from Old Norse.
  2. A small city, the county seat of Macon County, Georgia, United States.

Forms of Oglethorpe

pluralOglethorpes

Origin of Oglethorpe

Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, Bramham cum Oglethorpe, so called from the Old Norse personal name Oddketill + thorpe. The personal name is composed by the elements odd (“point of a weapon”) + ketill (“cauldron”).

Words formed from Oglethorpe

Questions about Oglethorpe

What does Oglethorpe mean?
Oglethorpe means a surname from Old Norse.
What part of speech is Oglethorpe?
Oglethorpe is a proper noun.

Words near Oglethorpe in the dictionary

  1. ogler
  2. oglers
  3. ogles
  4. Ogleshield
  5. oglesome
  6. Oglethorpe
  7. Oglethorpe County
  8. Oglethorpes
  9. Ogliastra
  10. Ogliastran
  11. Ogliastrian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Oglethorpe (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Oglethorpe.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oglethorpe. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.