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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   A market town and civil parish with a town council in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, and former county town of Huntingdonshire (OS grid ref TL2372). countable, uncountable
3. 3
   A borough, the county seat of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States. countable, uncountable
4. 4
   A town, the county seat of Carroll County, Tennessee, United States. countable, uncountable
5. 5
   A community in the city of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, located on the US border and named after Collis Potter Huntington. countable, uncountable

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6. 6
   A former township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, now part of Centre Hastings municipality (see there). countable, uncountable
7. 7
   A town in Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Montérégie region, Quebec, Canada, originally in Huntingdon County. countable, uncountable
8. 8
   A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia. countable, uncountable
9. 9
   A rural locality south of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Old English Huntandūn, equivalent to hunta (“hunter”) + dūn (“hill, mountain”).

Related phrases

Huntingdon CountyHuntingdon and PeterboroughHuntingdon elmcarroll countycounty seatcounty townhuntingdon countymarket town

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