Eldon

E1L1D2O1N1
/ˈɛl.dən/

proper noun

A village in County Durham, England.

Less commonScrabble 6

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A locality in Improvement District No. 9, Alberta, Canada.
  2. An English earldom.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.

    Eldon Lee Edwards, who called himself Imperial Wizard of the only “true” latter-day Ku Klux Klan, died of a heart attack last night at the age of 51.

    1960 August 3, “Eldon Edwads, Klan Chief, Dies […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
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    Sir Eldon Harvey Trimingham, an owner of the Trimingham Brothers department store in Hamilton, Bermuda, died yesterday in his sleep at his home, Fresh Pond Cottage, in Tucker’s Town, Bermuda.

    1959 December 13, “Sir Eldon Trimingham Is Dead; Bermuda Merchant, Yachtsman”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

    Eldon Paul King, who retired in April as director of the International Tax Relations Division of the Internal Revenue Service, died today after an illness of several months.

    1962 November 13, “Eldon Paul King, 69, Retired U.S. Tax Aide”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

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Eldon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eldon

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