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Wabash

/ˈwɔbæʃ/

Wabash proper noun: an unincorporated community in Phillips County, Arkansas.

Proper noun

Wabash

  1. An unincorporated community in Phillips County, Arkansas.
  2. A city, the county seat of Wabash County, Indiana.
  3. An unincorporated community in Cass County, Nebraska.
  4. An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio.
  5. A ghost town in Mineral County, West Virginia.
  6. A number of townships in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, listed under Wabash Township.
  7. A river in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, which is a tributary of the Ohio River; in full, the Wabash River.
  8. (historical) The former Wabash Railroad.

Origin of Wabash

Via French Ouabache, from Miami [Term?] (“it shines white”), referring to the Wabash River (which has a limestone bed), ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p- (“(be) white”).

Words formed from Wabash

Questions about Wabash

What does Wabash mean?
Wabash means an unincorporated community in Phillips County, Arkansas.
What part of speech is Wabash?
Wabash is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Wabash?
Wabash is pronounced /ˈwɔbæʃ/ (US).

Words near Wabash in the dictionary

  1. Wabamun
  2. Waban
  3. Wabana
  4. Wabanaki
  5. Wabanaki Confederacy
  6. Wabash
  7. Wabash County
  8. Wabasha
  9. Wabasha County
  10. Wabaunsee
  11. Wabaunsee County

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