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Cavendish

//ˈkævəndɪʃ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8046). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A number of places in Canada:; A locality in Alberta. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A number of places in Canada:; A local service district in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A number of places in Canada:; A community, ward and former township in Trent Lakes, Peterborough County, Ontario. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A number of places in Canada:; A rural community of Queens County, Prince Edward Island. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    An unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A town and census-designated place therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A township in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    The most commonly sold banana; one of the triploid (AAA) cultivars of Musa acuminata. countable

    "Crucially, almost the entirety of exported bananas are Cavendishes."

  2. 2
    Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. uncountable

    ""But the managers seem inclined to cut their cavendish very fine just at present," she said."

  3. 3
    Alternative form of cavendish (“type of tobacco”). alt-of, alternative, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

* (English village): "Cāfna's enclosure", from Old English personal name *Cāfna + edisċ (“pasture”); recorded as Kauanadisc in 1086 (DB). * (in Vermont): Likely named after William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. * (banana): Named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.

Etymology 2

* (English village): "Cāfna's enclosure", from Old English personal name *Cāfna + edisċ (“pasture”); recorded as Kauanadisc in 1086 (DB). * (in Vermont): Likely named after William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. * (banana): Named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.

Etymology 3

Possibly from the name of the original manufacturer.

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