Houston

proper noun Houstons · Hoston · Houstoun · Hughesdon

1. countable, uncountable A habitational surname.
2. countable, uncountable A male given name transferred from the surname, of mainly American usage.
3. countable, uncountable A large city, the county seat of Harris County, Texas, United States, named after Sam Houston. Spring in Houston is scalding sidewalks and sun-drunk lovebugs. It’s dead grass and midday thunderstorms. It isn’t the beginning or the end of anything, just a prolonged in-between through dead-end traffic on I-45.

   Similar: Space City

4. countable, uncountable A village in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland.
5. countable, uncountable A town in the Bulkley Valley, British Columbia, Canada.
6. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Winston County, Alabama.
7. countable, uncountable A city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska.
8. countable, uncountable A small town in Perry County, Arkansas.
9. countable, uncountable A small town in Kent County, Delaware.
10. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Suwannee County, Florida.
11. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Heard County, Georgia.
12. countable, uncountable A township in Adams County, Illinois.
13. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Salt Creek Township, Jackson County, Indiana.
14. countable, uncountable A small city and township in Houston County, Minnesota.
15. countable, uncountable A small city in and one of the two county seats of Chickasaw County, Mississippi.
16. countable, uncountable A small city, the county seat of Texas County, Missouri.
17. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in York County, Nebraska.
18. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Union County, North Carolina.
19. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Loramie Township, Shelby County, Ohio.
20. countable, uncountable A borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
21. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Tennessee.
22. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Houston County
23. countable, metonymically, uncountable The Johnson Space Center, the NASA Mission Control complex located in Houston, Texas. [A]ircraft were carefully guided to a precise point in the sky up to 300 miles away by a dedicated ground-based team[.] Houston’s control of the Apollo moon missions was on a vastly greater scale, but parallels are not hard to see.