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elgin
/ˈɛldʒɪn/
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What does elgin mean?
proper noun
- A surname.
- A town in Moray council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, the original place from which the others were named.
- A large valley southeast of Cape Town, South Africa.
More meanings (29)
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Grassland, Manitoba.
- A rural community and parish in Albert County, New Brunswick.
- A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
- A hamlet in Rideau Lakes, Ontario.
- A county in Ontario; see Elgin County.
- A rural municipality in Quebec.
- An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Alabama.
- A census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.
- A ghost town in Merced County, California.
- A city in Cook County and Kane County, Illinois.
- A township in Kane County, Illinois.
- A tiny city in Fayette County, Iowa.
- A tiny city in Chautauqua County, Kansas.
- A small city and township in Wabasha County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Missouri.
- A minor city and township in Antelope County, Nebraska.
- A ghost town in Nevada.
- A tiny city in Grant County, North Dakota.
- A village in Van Wert County, Ohio.
- A small city in Comanche County, Oklahoma.
- A small city in Union County, Oregon.
- A borough in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
- An incorporated town in Kershaw County, South Carolina.
- A census-designated place in Lancaster County, South Carolina.
- A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Scott County, Tennessee.
- A city in Bastrop County and Travis County, Texas.
- A neighborhood of Green River, Emery County, Utah.
- A rural locality in the Shire of Capel, Western Australia.
- A Scottish earldom.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛldʒɪn/
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See this word in context.
I made my way from there, via Perth and Dunkeld, to Inverness, and from thence I proceeded to Elgin.
I know a hound that has an ancient, wrinkled, human, far-away look that reminds one of the bust of Homer among the Elgin marbles.
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Powell of Chicago gives an account of a girl of nineteen who lost her scalp while working in the Elgin Watch Factory at Elgin, Illinois.
The ruins of the ancient edifices of Melrose, Kilwinning, Aberborthwick, Elgin, and other religious establishments, show that architecture must then have made great progress in the North, and lead us to the conclusion that the other arts had reached a like stage of advancement.