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Pen-y-ghent

Pen-y-ghent proper noun: a mountain in Craven district, North Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire Dales of England.

Proper noun

Pen-y-ghent

  1. A mountain in Craven district, North Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire Dales of England.

Origin of Pen-y-ghent

From Cumbric *penn (“top, summit”) + Cumbric *ı (“the, of the”) + either Cumbric *ceint (“border”) or Cumbric *gınt (“heathen, gentile”).

Questions about Pen-y-ghent

What does Pen-y-ghent mean?
Pen-y-ghent means a mountain in Craven district, North Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire Dales of England.
What part of speech is Pen-y-ghent?
Pen-y-ghent is a proper noun.

Words near Pen-y-ghent in the dictionary

  1. pen-torches
  2. Pen-y-bont
  3. Pen-y-bont-fawr
  4. Pen-y-Darren
  5. Pen-y-fai
  6. Pen-y-ghent
  7. Pen-y-graig
  8. pena
  9. penacilin
  10. Penacook
  11. Penado

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