Huntly

H4U1N1T1L1Y4

proper noun

A town in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ5240).

OriginOld English hunta →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A town in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ5240).
  2. A town in the Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, situated on the Waikato River.
  3. An unincorporated community in Rappahannock County, Virginia, United States.
  4. A suburb of the City of Greater Bendigo, central Victoria, Australia.

Origin

  1. Old Englishhunta“hunter”
  2. EnglishHuntly

The Aberdeenshire town was named after a place in the parish of Gordon, Berwickshire. The Berwickshire place-name may derive from Old English hunta (“hunter”) + leah (“clearing, meadow”).

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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