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Sweetland

Sweetland proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Sweetland (plural Sweetlands)

  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A community in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  3. A ghost town in Nevada County, California, United States.

Forms of Sweetland

pluralSweetlands
alternative formSwetland

Origin of Sweetland

Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from Old English swēte (“sweet”) + land (“land”).

Questions about Sweetland

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

Words near Sweetland in the dictionary

  1. sweetishly
  2. sweetishness
  3. sweetite
  4. sweetkin
  5. sweetkins
  6. Sweetland
  7. Sweetlands
  8. sweetleaf
  9. sweetleafs
  10. sweetless
  11. sweetlier

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