Huntingdon

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/ˈhʌn.tɪŋ.dən/

proper noun

A surname.

OriginOld English Huntandūn →
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Meanings

proper nounHuntingdon (countable and uncountable, plural Huntingdons)

plural Huntingdons

  1. countableuncountableA surname.
  2. countableuncountableA market town and civil parish with a town council in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, and former county town of Huntingdonshire (OS grid ref TL2372).
  3. countableuncountableA borough, the county seat of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  4. countableuncountableA town, the county seat of Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
  5. countableuncountableA community in the city of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, located on the US border and named after Collis Potter Huntington.
  6. countableuncountableA former township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, now part of Centre Hastings municipality (see there).
  7. countableuncountableA town in Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Montérégie region, Quebec, Canada, originally in Huntingdon County.
  8. countableuncountableA locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  9. countableuncountableA rural locality south of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Origin

  1. Old EnglishHuntandūn
  2. EnglishHuntingdon

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

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APA

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

MLA

“Huntingdon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Huntingdon. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Huntingdon,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Huntingdon.

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