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harrington

/ˈhɛɹɪŋtən/

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What does harrington mean?

noun

  1. A short, light jacket with a zip front and often a tartan lining.

proper noun

  1. A habitational surname from Old English from several places of that name in England.
  2. A surname from Irish anglicised from the Irish Ó hArrachtáin "descendant of Arrachtán".
More meanings (13)

proper noun

  1. A fishing village located at the mouth of the Manning River, New South Wales, Australia.
  2. A community in the township of Zorra, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada.
  3. A township municipality in the Laurentides region, Quebec, Canada.
  4. A village and ward in Workington civil parish, Cumberland council area, Cumbria, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NX9925).
  5. A hamlet and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref TF3671).
  6. A hamlet and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire (OS grid ref SP7780).
  7. An unincorporated community in Colusa County, California.
  8. A city in Kent County, Delaware.
  9. A town in Washington County, Maine.
  10. An unincorporated community in Bennett County, South Dakota.
  11. An unincorporated community in Alleghany County, Virginia.
  12. A city in Lincoln County, Washington.
  13. An English earldom.
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IPA pronunciation

/ˈhɛɹɪŋtən/

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Chess men were kept for Queen Elizabeth's use by Lord Cecil, the Earl of Leicester, and Sir John Harrington.
H. E. (Henry Edward) BirdChess History and ReminiscencesProject Gutenberg ebook #4902
Here are great disputes in the Regency, where Lord Harrington finds there is not spirit enough to discard these puppet-show heroes!
Horace WalpoleThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #4610
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Mr. Gould personally bought up and gave money and bonds for one or two individual interests on the above basis, including that of Harrington, who in his representative capacity executed assignments to Mr. Gould.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820
My attention was not called to this subject again for several years, when I noticed an account of some similar experiments by F. A. P. Barnard and Dr. W. H. Harrington, the latter of whom is now of the firm of Dobyns & Harrington, of New Orleans.
S. D. (Samuel Dwight) HumphreyAmerican Hand Book of the DaguerreotypeProject Gutenberg ebook #167