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Chaplin

//ˈt͡ʃæplɪn// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as an occupation. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A surname originating as an occupation.; Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (1889–1977), English comic actor and film director of the silent film era. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A place name:; A number of places in the United States; A town in Windham County, Connecticut. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A place name:; A number of places in the United States; An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A place name:; A number of places in the United States; An unincorporated community and coal town in Monongalia County, West Virginia. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A place name:; A number of places in Canada; A community in Halifax regional municipality, Nova Scotia. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A place name:; A number of places in Canada; A rural municipality in south-central Saskatchewan; in full, the Rural Municipality of Chaplin No. 164. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A place name:; A number of places in Canada; A village in the Rural Municipality of Chaplin, Saskatchewan countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a class of bacterial proteins that form fibrils instead of a coiled structure.

Etymology

An occupational surname for a chaplain, from Middle English and Old French chapelain.

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