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elwood

/ˈɛlˌwʊd/

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What does elwood mean?

proper noun

  1. A surname transferred from the given name.
  2. An inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  3. A village in Will County, Illinois.
More meanings (7)

proper noun

  1. A city in Madison County and Tipton County, Indiana.
  2. A small city in Doniphan County, Kansas.
  3. An unincorporated community in Greene County, Missouri.
  4. A village, the county seat of Gosper County, Nebraska.
  5. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mullica Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
  6. A census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York.
  7. A town in Box Elder County, Utah.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɛlˌwʊd/

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Had I not won the people's confidence while I was city clerk of Elwood, Indiana, my public career would have ended there.
James J. (James John) DavisThe Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ItProject Gutenberg ebook #1297
The incident is related in the following letter written to Mr. William Hallett Phillips, of Washington, by another friend, Mr. Elwood Hofer.
Theodore RooseveltHunting the Grisly and Other Sketches An Account of the Big Game of the United States and its Chase with Horse, Hound, and RifleProject Gutenberg ebook #3337