Fredericktown

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proper noun

An unincorporated community in Washington County, Kentucky.

OriginEnglish town ← Middle English toun ← Old English tūn →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A number of places in the United States:
    1. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Kentucky.
    2. An unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland.
    3. A city, the county seat of Madison County, Missouri, named after George Frederick Bollinger.
    4. A village in Knox County, Ohio, named after Frederick, Maryland.

      St. Vincent de Paul School in Mount Vernon offers a latchkey program for its students (preschool through eighth grade). But Fredericktown Local Schools is Knox County’s only public district with a latchkey program.

      2022 August 30, Grant Pepper, “Could Fredericktown’s latchkey program serve as a model for other Knox County school districts?”, in KnoxPages, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2025
    5. An unincorporated community in Columbiana County, Ohio, named after its surveyor George Frederick.
    6. A census-designated place in East Bethlehem Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
    7. The former name of the city now known as Frederick, Maryland.

Origin

  1. EnglishFrederick
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dewh₂-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*duh₂-nós?
  4. Proto-Celtic*dūnom
  5. Proto-Germanic*tūną
  6. Proto-West Germanic*tūn
  7. Old Englishtūn
  8. Middle Englishtoun
  9. Englishtown
  10. EnglishFredericktown

From Frederick + town.

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Cite this entry
APA

Fredericktown. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fredericktown

MLA

“Fredericktown.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fredericktown. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Fredericktown,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fredericktown.

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