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Cowan
//ˈkaʊən// name, noun, slang
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Proper Noun
- 1 A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
- 2 A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)
- 3 A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
- 4 An outer suburb of Sydney in Hornsby Shire, New South Wales, Australia. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
- 5 A town in western Manitoba, Canada.
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- 6 A place in the United States:; A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
- 7 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
- 8 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.
- 9 A place in the United States:; A city in Franklin County, Tennessee; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s.
Noun
- 1 A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
- 2 A fishing-boat. Scotland, obsolete, rare
- 3 A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
- 4 A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person. slang
- 5 Uninitiated, outside, “profane”. attributive
Etymology
Etymology 1
First attested in 1598.
Etymology 2
First attested in 1722; perhaps from the Scottish Gaelic cobhan (“coffer”, “box”, “ark”).
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