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Carnegie

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kɑːˈnɪɡi//
  • United Kingdom//kɑːˈnɛɡi//
  • United States//ˈkɑɹnəɡi//
  • United States//kɑɹˈneɪɡi//
  • United States//kɑɹˈnɛɡi//

A surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

  2. 2

    A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie: A ghost town in San Joaquin County, California; the area is now part of Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area.

  3. 3

    A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie: An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Georgia.

  4. 4

    A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie: A ghost town in Rock County, Minnesota.

  5. 5

    A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie: A town in Caddo County, Oklahoma.

  6. 6

    A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie: A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

  7. 7

    A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie: An unincorporated community in the town of Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin.

  8. 8

    A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Glen Eira, Victoria, Australia.

Etymology

Possibly from Gaelic cathair an eige, meaning "fort at the gap".

Forms

plural
Carnegies
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).