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fulton
/ˈfʊltən/
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What does fulton mean?
proper noun
- An English habitational surname from Old English.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A town in Clarke County, Alabama.
More meanings (22)
proper noun
- A town in Hempstead County, Arkansas; named for Robert Fulton.
- A census-designated place in Sonoma County, California; named for founders Thomas and James Fulton.
- A city in Whiteside County, Illinois; named for Robert Fulton.
- A town in Fulton County, Indiana; named for its county, itself named for Robert Fulton.
- A minor city in Bourbon County, Kansas; named for the city in Illinois.
- A city in Fulton County, Kentucky; named for its county, itself named for Robert Fulton.
- A census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland; named for Charles C. Fulton, editor of The Baltimore Sun.
- An unincorporated community in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Keweenaw County, Michigan.
- A township in Gratiot County, Michigan.
- A neighbourhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- A city, the county seat of Itawamba County, Mississippi; named for Robert Fulton.
- A city, the county seat of Callaway County, Missouri; named for Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat.
- A city in Oswego County, New York; named for Robert Fulton.
- A town in Schoharie County, New York.
- A village in Morrow County, Ohio.
- A town in Hanson County, South Dakota; perhaps named for Robert Fulton, or for a local railroad employee.
- An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Tennessee.
- A town in Aransas County, Texas; named for George Ware Fulton, a land developer in the area.
- A town and unincorporated community therein, in Rock County, Wisconsin.
- Other townships in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under Fulton Township.
- A community in West Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.
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IPA pronunciation
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Among those who inspected the vessel while at work were Fulton, the American artist, and Henry Bell, the Glasgow engineer.
Such people as these laughed at Fulton with his steamboat, they laughed at Stephenson and his steam locomotive, they laughed at Wright and the airplane.
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In the darker stretches of Fulton Street that lead up to the Brooklyn Bridge he fiercely exclaimed: "By God, it's not such a bad world."
It ought, at the same time, to be remembered that all that was afterwards done by Symington, Fulton, and Bell, followed long after the performance of this ever-memorable achievement.
The city presenting no objects of sufficient interest to detain us on our way, we resolved to proceed next day by another steamboat, the Fulton, and to join it, about noon, at a suburb called Portland, where it would be delayed some time in passing through a canal.