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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A topographic surname from Middle English for a dweller in a row of houses near a wood.
2. 2
   A male given name transferred from the surname, given in the 1910s in honor of President Woodrow Wilson. US

Example

More examples

"Woodrow Wilson was extremely sick."

Etymology

From wood + row.

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