What does "falmouth" mean?

A town, port, and civil parish with a town council in south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8132).

Falmouth

//ˈfæl.məθ// name

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A town, port, and civil parish with a town council in south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8132).
"In previous years Penryn Town Council has used Falmouth Town Council to fulfil the parks contract and glyphosate had been used, councillor Debra Clegg confirmed."
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A village in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Suwannee County, Florida.
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A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Fairview Township, Fayette County and Union Township and Washington Township, Rush County, Indiana.
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A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Pendleton County, Kentucky.

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A number of places in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, Maine.
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A number of places in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
"Erickson shared images on CNN iReport that show mixed holiday decorations in their Falmouth, Massachusetts, home, from a menorah and advent calendar to stockings bearing the phrase “shalom” and plates decorated with dreidels on a red plaid table cloth."
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A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Clam Union Township, Missaukee County, Michigan.
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A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Conoy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Stafford County, Virginia.
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A port town in Saint Paul parish, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda.
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A town and parish capital in Trelawny parish, Jamaica, named for the town in Cornwall, England.
"My son says that this telephone can even allow you to chat with someone in another district—that you may be in Falmouth, yet your talk may be raising the eyebrows of someone in Kingston."
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A rural community of Break O'Day council area, Tasmania, Australia.

"Nearly a hundred souls were in her, all told, when we set sail from Falmouth."

For the Cornish town (sense 1), from Fal + mouth, at the mouth of the River Fal.

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