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aberdeen

/ˌæb.ɚˈdin/

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What does aberdeen mean?

noun

  1. A wide evenly curved fishhook.
  2. Alternative form of Aberdeen terrier.

proper noun

  1. A port city in Aberdeen council area, Scotland, on the North Sea.
More meanings (28)

proper noun

  1. A council area of Scotland including the city, one of 32 created in 1996.
  2. A former county in northeastern Scotland; see Aberdeenshire.
  3. A populated place in Monroe County, Arkansas.
  4. An unincorporated community in Inyo County, California.
  5. An unincorporated community in Palm Beach County, Florida.
  6. A neighbourhood of Peachtree City, Fayette County, Georgia.
  7. A city in Bingham County, Idaho.
  8. An unincorporated community in Cass Township, Ohio County, Indiana.
  9. A census-designated place in Center Township, Porter County, Indiana.
  10. An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kentucky.
  11. A city in Harford County, Maryland, home of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
  12. A city, the county seat of Monroe County, Mississippi.
  13. A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
  14. A town in Moore County, North Carolina.
  15. A village in Huntington Township, Brown County, Ohio.
  16. A city, the county seat of Brown County, in northeastern South Dakota, United States.
  17. An unincorporated community in Collingsworth County, Texas.
  18. A city in Grays Harbor County, Washington.
  19. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
  20. A community in Nova Scotia.
  21. A community in Ontario.
  22. A town in Saskatchewan.
  23. A settlement in Saint Elizabeth parish, Jamaica.
  24. A neighbourhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  25. A town in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
  26. A town in the Muswellbrook council area and the Upper Hunter council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  27. A suburb of Devonport, in northern Tasmania, Australia.
  28. An area and town in Southern district, Hong Kong.

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A month or two after this encounter of mine, there came a Scot to Sacramento—perhaps from Aberdeen.
Robert Louis StevensonThe Silverado SquattersProject Gutenberg ebook #516
Dr. Beattie relates an instance of a gentleman attempting to cross the river Dee, then frozen over, near Aberdeen.
William YouattThe DogProject Gutenberg ebook #9478
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The Yellow Aberdeen is another excellent variety, which may be sown EARLY in July, and treated much the same as the foregoing.
Edward Payson RoeThe Home AcreProject Gutenberg ebook #5418
The neighbourhood of Aberdeen was originally so wild and barren that Telford expressed his surprise that any class of men should ever have settled there.
Samuel SmilesThe Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great BritainProject Gutenberg ebook #939
There is a record of a calculus taken from the bladder of an individual living in Aberdeen.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747