Rockville

English

Etymology

From rock +‎ -ville.

Proper noun

Rockville

1. A city, the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland; named for nearby Rock Creek.
2. A census-designated place in Connecticut.
3. A suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland.
4. A town, the county seat of Parke County, Indiana.
5. A city in Minnesota; named for granite rock formations on nearby streams.
6. A town in Washington County, Utah.
   • 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 30:

     The Rio Virgen, between Long Valley and the Mormon town of Rockville, runs through Parunuweap Canyon, which is often not more than 20 or 30 feet in width and is from 600 to 1,500 feet deep.

7. A city in Missouri; named for local white sandstone quarries.
8. A town in South Carolina.
9. An unincorporated community in California.
10. A village in Nebraska.
11. A census-designated place in Alabama.
12. A village in Rhode Island.
13. A community of Nova Scotia.
14. An unincorporated community in Georgia, United States.
15. An unincorporated community in Iowa.
16. An unincorporated community in Ohio; named for nearby quarries.
17. An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania.
18. An unincorporated community in Virginia; named for postmaster William Rock.
19. An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for the area's rocky terrain.
20. An unincorporated community in Grant County, Wisconsin.
21. An unincorporated community in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

Derived terms

• Rockville Centre