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Dunn

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dʌn//
  • United Kingdom/[dɐn]/
  • United States//dʌn//

A surname from Irish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Irish.

    In a statement posted on social media, Bondi said that the man, identified in court documents as 37-year-old Sean Charles Dunn, has since been fired. […] On Wednesday night, the FBI director, Kash Patel, said that Dunn had been charged with felony assault on a federal officer.

  2. 2

    A number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Benton County, Indiana.

  3. 3

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.

  4. 4

    A number of places in the United States: A city in Harnett County, North Carolina.

  5. 5

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Scurry County, Texas.

  6. 6

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Dane County, Wisconsin.

  7. 7

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Dunn County, Wisconsin.

Etymology

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Duinn (“descendant of Donn”), a byname from donn (“brown, brown-haired”).

Forms

plural
Dunns
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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

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