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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
A placename:
A village and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref NX9820).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A hamlet in Thursby parish, Cumberland, Cumbria, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY2750).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A hamlet (also called Great Parton) in Eardisley parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3148).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A hamlet in Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX6970).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A habitational surname from Old English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Any of the constituent particles making up a compound particle, e.g. the quarks and gluons which make up hadrons.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, historical
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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History
From Old English pere (“pear”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Coined by American physicist Richard Feynman in 1969, from part + -on.
