Huntingdon

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Huntingdon

/ˈhʌn.tɪŋ.dən/

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

proper noun Huntingdons

countable, uncountable A surname.
countable, uncountable 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 A borough, the county seat of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
countable, uncountable A town, the county seat of Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
countable, uncountable A community in the city of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, located on the US border and named after Collis Potter Huntington.
countable, uncountable A former township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, now part of Centre Hastings municipality (see there).
countable, uncountable A town in Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Montérégie region, Quebec, Canada, originally in Huntingdon County.
countable, uncountable A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
countable, uncountable A rural locality south of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand.

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@misc{huntingdon_2026,
  title = {Huntingdon},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/huntingdon},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}