Penn
proper nounattested in dialogue
A surname.
proper noun
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A surname.
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A place in England: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, previously in Chiltern district (OS grid ref SP9094).
High on a ridge of the Chilterns stands the village from which a celebrated Buckinghamshire family took its name. It was the home of the ancestors, and some of the descendants, of William Penn, the Quaker who in 1682 founded Pennsylvania in America.
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A place in England: A hamlet in Wootton Fitzpaine parish, west Dorset (OS grid ref SY3495).
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A place in England: A western suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO8996).
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A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Ramsey County, North Dakota.
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A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
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A place in the United States: A borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, named after William Penn.
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A place in the United States: A number of townships in the United States, including in Illinois (2), Indiana (3), Iowa (4), Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio (2), and Pennsylvania (12), listed under Penn Township.
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informalUniversity of Pennsylvania
Well, he [Donald J. Trump] did go to Penn. Whether he got in on merit is a whole other question.
Etymology
* As an English surname, named after various places such as Penn in Buckinghamshire or Staffordshire, of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *penn (“(hill) top, head”). * Also as an English surname, from the noun pen (“enclosure”). * Also as an English surname, spelling variant of Parnell. * As a German surname, from Sorbian pien (“tree stump”), from Proto-Slavic *pьňь.