Huntingdon
English
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Etymology
editFrom Old English Huntandūn, equivalent to hunta (“hunter”) + dūn (“hill, mountain”).
Proper noun
editHuntingdon (countable and uncountable, plural Huntingdons)
- A surname.
- A market town and civil parish with a town council in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, and former county town of Huntingdonshire (OS grid ref TL2372). [1]
- A borough, the county seat of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- A town, the county seat of Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
- A community in the city of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, located on the US border and named after Collis Potter Huntington.
- A town in Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Montérégie region, Quebec, Canada, originally in Huntingdon County.
- A rural locality south of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand. [2]
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