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Irving

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɜː.vɪŋ//
  • Canada//ˈɝ.vɪŋ//

A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

  2. 2

    A male given name transferred from the surname, often used by English-speaking Jews to anglicize Israel.

  3. 3

    A number of places in the United States: A township and village in Montgomery County, Illinois.

  4. 4

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Benton County, Iowa, named after Washington Irving.

  5. 5

    A number of places in the United States: A township in Barry County, Michigan.

  6. 6

    A number of places in the United States: A neighbourhood of Duluth, Minnesota.

  7. 7

    A number of places in the United States: A township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.

  8. 8

    A number of places in the United States: A hamlet in Chautauqua County, New York.

  9. 9

    A number of places in the United States: A city in Dallas County, Texas, possibly named after Washington Irving.

  10. 10

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

Etymology

Variant of the Scottish habitational surname Irvine, probably from a Celtic word cognate with Welsh ir, yr (“fresh”) + afon (“river”).

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.

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