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Chaplin¹

  • /ˈt͡ʃæplɪn/ US

Sounds like chaplain

Where it comes from

An occupational surname for a chaplain, from Middle English and Old French chapelain.

proper noun Chaplins · Chaplain

  1. countable, uncountable A surname originating as an occupation. Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (1889–1977), English comic actor and film director of the silent film era.
  2. countable, uncountable A town in Windham County, Connecticut.
  3. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.
  4. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community and coal town in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
  5. countable, uncountable A community in Halifax regional municipality, Nova Scotia.
  6. countable, uncountable A rural municipality in south-central Saskatchewan; in full, the Rural Municipality of Chaplin No. 164.

    Similar: Rural Municipality of Chaplin No. 164, Rural Municipality No. 164, Rural Municipality of Chaplin

  7. countable, uncountable A village in the Rural Municipality of Chaplin, Saskatchewan

chaplin²

noun chaplins

  1. Any of a class of bacterial proteins that form fibrils instead of a coiled structure.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: chapin, chaplain, chapling, chappel, chappell, chappelle, chapman, chapell, chapais, chapel, chamberlin, kaplin, chappelear, churcher, champy, chaparian

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name transliterations of the surname

한국어채플린 Chaepeullin
日本語チャップリン Chappurin
中文卓別林 /卓别林 Zhuóbiélín, 查普林 Chápǔlín
РусскийЧа́плин Čáplin
العربيةتْشَابْلِن tšāblin

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"chaplin." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/chaplin. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{chaplin_2026,
  title = {chaplin},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chaplin},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}