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Shankland

Shankland proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Shankland (plural Shanklands)

  1. A surname from Old English.

Forms of Shankland

pluralShanklands
alternative formShanklin

Origin of Shankland

Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in Scotland, most likely from Old English sċanca (“leg”) + land (“land”).

Questions about Shankland

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

Words near Shankland in the dictionary

  1. shankhas
  2. Shankill
  3. shanking
  4. shanking it
  5. shankings
  6. Shankland
  7. Shanklands
  8. Shankle
  9. Shankles
  10. shankless
  11. Shanklin

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