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Dearborn¹

  • /ˈdɪəbɔːn/ UK
  • /ˈdɪɹboɹn/ Canada, US
  • /ˈdɪəboːn/ Australia
  • /ˈdiəboːn/ New Zealand

Where it comes from

From Middle English Daborne, Dabernoun, from Old Northern French d'Arborn (literally “of Arbornon”).

proper noun Dearborns

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable A city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States. The Yemeni American, who had been living in the Dearborn and Detroit area for four years, was preparing dinner while her mother took Amirah’s seven-year-old daughter, Saida, to a nearby playground to play with her friends.
  3. countable, uncountable A city in Buchanan County and Platte County, Missouri, United States.
  4. countable, uncountable Dearborn County.

noun Dearborns

  1. Alternative letter-case form of dearborn

dearborn²

  • /ˈdɪəbɔːn/ UK

Where it comes from

Named for the inventor.

noun dearborns · Dearborn

  1. A light four-wheeled wagon. It was somewhat hazardous to venture out with them at that time of day, but he loaded some in a dearborn so as to give them the appearance of going to a colored Quarterly Meeting, then in session near by.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: fitzroy, michigan, damewood, whiteford, dehlin, deering, depew, dearman, demorest, danforth, dingell, darbyshire, deberry, durbin, boyden, demaris

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

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@misc{dearborn_2026,
  title = {dearborn},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dearborn},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}