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Delaney

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɪˈleɪni//

A surname from Old French.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Old French.

  2. 2

    A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

  3. 3

    A male given name.

  4. 4

    An unincorporated community in Madison County, Arkansas, United States.

  5. 5

    An unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia, United States.

Etymology

From a Norman baronial surname, from a place in France, Old French del aunaie (“from the alder grove”). In Ireland an anglicization of Irish Ó Dubhshláine (descendant of Black (dubh) + Challenge (slán)).

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