Huntingdon

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English

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Etymology

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From Old English Huntandūn, equivalent to hunta (hunter) + dūn (hill, mountain).

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Huntingdon (countable and uncountable, plural Huntingdons)

  1. A surname.
  2. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, and former county town of Huntingdonshire (OS grid ref TL2372). [1]
  3. A borough, the county seat of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  4. A town, the county seat of Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
  5. A community in the city of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, located on the US border and named after Collis Potter Huntington.
  6. A town in Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Montérégie region, Quebec, Canada, originally in Huntingdon County.
  7. A rural locality south of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand. [2]

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