Inverness

English

Etymology

From Inver- +‎ Ness, from the River Ness.

Proper noun

Inverness

2. A city, the administrative centre of Highland council area, Scotland.
3. A rural locality in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia.
4. A rural community in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
5. A municipality in Centre-du-Québec region, Quebec, Canada.
6. A community in the suburb of Stocksund near Stockholm, Sweden.
7. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Bullock County, Alabama.
   2. A former census-designated place, now a neighborhood of Hoover, Shelby County, Alabama; suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.
   3. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Marin County, California.
   4. A census-designated place in Arapahoe County, Colorado.
   5. A city, the county seat of Citrus County, Florida.
   6. A suburban village in Cook County, Illinois.
   7. An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
   8. A township in Cheboygan County, Michigan.
   9. A town in Sunflower County, Mississippi.
   10. A census-designated place in Hill County, Montana.

Translations

city in Scotland

• Breton: Inbhir Nis
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印威內斯／印威内斯

• Czech: Inverness
• Finnish: Inverness
• French: Inverness (fr)
• German: Inverness
• Irish: Inbhear Nis
• Italian: Inverness
• Japanese: インヴァネス
• Korean: 인버네스 (inbeoneseu)
• Lithuanian: Invernesas
• Manx: Inbhir Nis
• Portuguese: Inverness f
• Russian: Инвернесс (Inverness)
• Scots: Innerness
• Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Nis
• Spanish: Inverness
• Ukrainian: Інвернесс (Inverness)
• Welsh: Inverness

Noun

Inverness (plural Invernesses)

1. A type of overcoat constructed without sleeves and having a shoulder cape extending to the wrists. The best examples are quite heavy, made from Harris tweed; often associated with Sherlock Holmes.
2. A variation of this coat, the "coachman's cape": the shoulder cape does not extend around the back but is made of two segments, the length of each being sewn into the seam of the coat on either side.

Anagrams

• nerviness, rivenness

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Inverness.

Proper noun

Inverness f

1. Inverness (a city, the administrative centre of Highland council area, Scotland)