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dupont
/ˈdupɑnt/
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What does dupont mean?
proper noun
- A surname from French.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- An unincorporated community in Adams County, Colorado, named after the DuPont company.
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proper noun
- A town in Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, named after the Du Pont family.
- An unincorporated community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, named, for want of a name, after a box of Dupont shotgun shells.
- A village in Putnam County, Ohio, named after Samuel Francis Du Pont.
- A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, named after the Dupont Explosives company.
- A rural community within Seymour, Sevier County, Tennessee, said to be derived from dew point.
- A town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
- Alternative spelling of Dupont.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdupɑnt/
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One of the earliest to be announced in the Press was a machine invented by the Russian, Feedoroff, and the Frenchman, Dupont.
M. Dupont found in one of the Belgium caves a piece of iron pyrites, from which, with a flint, sparks could be struck.
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It was not with this apparatus that Blanchard effected his ascent, for we have seen that the gearing of his vessel was broken by the infuriated Dupont de Chambon.
M. Dupont picked up in the Chaleux Cave a kidney-shaped piece of iron pyrites, hollowed out in a peculiar manner, which had evidently been used to obtain the precious spark.