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Pickering

Pickering proper noun: a city in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.

Proper noun

Pickering (countable and uncountable, plural Pickerings)

  1. A city in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
  2. A town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE7984).
  3. A minor city in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States.
  4. A township in Bottineau County, North Dakota, United States.
  5. Former name of Wool Bay, South Australia.
  6. A habitational surname from Old English, from the English town.

Forms of Pickering

pluralPickerings
alternative formPickron

Words formed from Pickering

Questions about Pickering

What does Pickering mean?
Pickering means a city in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
What part of speech is Pickering?
Pickering is a proper noun.

Words near Pickering in the dictionary

  1. pickerelweed
  2. pickerelweeds
  3. pickeries
  4. Pickerill
  5. Pickerills
  6. Pickering
  7. Pickering series
  8. pickeringite
  9. Pickerings
  10. Pickerington
  11. pickeroon

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