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Aberdeen

Aberdeen

English

Proper noun

Aberdeen

  1. A port city in Scotland, on the North Sea.
  2. A county in northeastern Scotland.
  3. A census-designated place in Florida
  4. A village in the State of Georgia
  5. A city in Idaho
  6. A census-designated place in Porter County, Indiana
  7. A city in eastern Maryland, home of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
  8. A city in Mississippi
  9. A town in New South Wales
  10. A town in North Carolina
  11. A community in Nova Scotia
  12. A village in Ohio
  13. A community in Ontario
  14. A town in Saskatchewan
  15. A town in Eastern Cape, South Africa
  16. A city in northeastern South Dakota.
  17. A city in Washington

Usage notes

  • Definitions 7 and 16 use the US pronunciation.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Aberdeen (plural Aberdeens)

  1. (usually capitalized) A wide evenly curved fishhook.[1]
  2. (usually capitalized) Alternative form of Aberdeen terrier

Translations

References

  1. Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], ISBN 0-87779-101-5), page 3
  • 2003, A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press (ISBN 0198527586)

French

Etymology

From English

Proper noun

Aberdeen f

  1. Aberdeen

Derived terms


Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English Aberdeen.

Proper noun

Aberdeen f

  1. Aberdeen (a city in Scotland)