Reading
proper nouncommon in dialogue
- //ˈɹɛdɪŋ//
A surname.
proper noun
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A surname.
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A large town in Berkshire, England.
A unitary authority and borough (Reading Borough Council) in Berkshire.
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A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Lyon County, Kansas.
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A number of places in the United States: A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health.
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A number of places in the United States: A city and township in Hillsdale County, Michigan.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Nobles County, Minnesota.
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A number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Pike County, Missouri.
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A number of places in the United States: A town in Schuyler County, New York.
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A number of places in the United States: A city in Hamilton County, Ohio.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Columbiana County, Ohio.
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A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, named after Reading in Berkshire, England.
His district — which covers all but seven eastern Lancaster County municipalities along with Reading in Berks County and parts of western Chester County — was reconfigured to to ^([sic]) drop Berks and Chester while expanding to all of Lancaster County and adding southern York County.
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A number of places in the United States: A town in Windsor County, Vermont.
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A number of places in the United States: A number of other townships, listed under Reading Township.
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A small town in Saint James parish, Jamaica.
Etymology
From Old English Rēadingas, the name of a tribe or clan of early Anglo-Saxon England whose capital was at Reading. Not related to reading.