Sweetland

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proper noun

A surname from Old English.

OriginOld English swēte →
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Meanings

proper nounSweetland (plural Sweetlands)

plural Sweetlands · alternative Swetland

  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A community in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  3. A ghost town in Nevada County, California, United States.

Origin

  1. Old Englishswēte“sweet”
  2. EnglishSweetland

Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from Old English swēte (“sweet”) + land (“land”).

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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