Glendenning

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
  2. 2
    A suburb of Sydney in the Blacktown council area, New South Wales, Australia.

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Dumfries, Scotland, perhaps from Scottish Gaelic gleann (“mountain valley, glen”) + dùn (“fortress”) + fionn (“white”).

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