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Dallas

//ˈdæləs// name

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  1. 1
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A large city, the county seat of Dallas County, in northeastern Texas.

    "The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum Brands, announced Tuesday that KFC’s corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky for Texas, joining sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices in the Dallas suburb of Plano."

  2. 2
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Polk County, Arkansas.
  3. 3
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Ouray County, Colorado.
  4. 4
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Paulding County, Georgia.
  5. 5
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A former city, now part of Melcher-Dallas, Marion County, Iowa.
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  1. 6
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Gaston County, North Carolina.
  2. 7
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Polk County, Oregon.
  3. 8
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A borough and township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
  4. 9
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A small town in Gregory County, South Dakota, named after Dallas, Texas.
  5. 10
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.
  6. 11
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A town and village therein, in Barron County, Wisconsin.
  7. 12
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A number of townships in the United States, listed under Dallas Township.
  8. 13
    A placename:; A neighbourhood of the city of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
  9. 14
    A placename:; A small village in northwestern Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ1252).
  10. 15
    A placename:; A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Hume, Victoria, Australia.
  11. 16
    A surname.
  12. 17
    A male given name transferred from the place name.

    "The men, 37-year-old Matthew Allison and 34-year-old Dallas Humber, are the leaders of an online White supremacist group called the Terrorgram Collective, prosecutors say."

Etymology

# The Texas city was named after George M. Dallas, vice president to Polk; family name is evolved from dalhous (13th c.), meaning "dweller at the house in the dale," from dale + house. # The Scottish place-name is from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh dôl (“meadow, haugh”) + gwas (“abode”).

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