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Ferguson

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfɜːɡəsən//
  • United States//ˈfɝɡəsən//

A surname transferred from the given name originating in Scotland from Clan Fergusson and now widespread in the English-speaking world.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname transferred from the given name originating in Scotland from Clan Fergusson and now widespread in the English-speaking world.

  2. 2

    A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Phillips County, Arkansas.

  3. 3

    A place in the United States: A tiny city in Marshall County, Iowa.

  4. 4

    A place in the United States: A small home rule city in Pulaski County, Kentucky.

  5. 5

    A place in the United States: A city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.

    Remember that so many of us click on links to CashApps, Venmos, PayPals, etc. to donate to bail funds, Flint Water reliefs, the next Ferguson, and the like without any thought of integrating ourselves into collective action?

  6. 6

    A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Wayne County, West Virginia.

  7. 7

    A community in the Regional District of Central Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada.

  8. 8

    A rural locality in the Shire of Dardanup, Western Australia.

  9. 9

    A locality in the Shire of Colac Otway, south western Victoria, Australia

Etymology

From Fergus + -son, translation of Gaelic MacFhearguis, "son of Fergus".

Forms

plural
Fergusons
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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).