Dallas
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Dallas
- /ˈdæləs/
Rhymes with -æləs
Where it comes from
# 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”).
proper noun
- 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.
- An unincorporated community in Polk County, Arkansas.
- A ghost town in Ouray County, Colorado.
- A city, the county seat of Paulding County, Georgia.
- A former city, now part of Melcher-Dallas, Marion County, Iowa.
- A town in Gaston County, North Carolina.
- A city, the county seat of Polk County, Oregon.
- A borough and township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
- A small town in Gregory County, South Dakota, named after Dallas, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.
- A town and village therein, in Barron County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Dallas Township.
- A neighbourhood of the city of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
- A small village in northwestern Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ1252).
- A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Hume, Victoria, Australia.
- A surname.
- 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.
