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stirling

/ˈstɝ.lɪŋ/

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What does stirling mean?

proper noun

  1. A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996, with its administrative centre in the city.
  2. A former local government district in Central Region, Scotland from 1975 to 1996, which became the council area.
  3. A settlement near Peterhead in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, otherwise known as Stirling Village (OS grid ref NK1242).
More meanings (11)

proper noun

  1. A village in the County of Warner, Alberta, Canada.
  2. A village in Stirling-Rawdon township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
  3. A census-designated place in Long Hill Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
  4. A settlement near Balclutha, South Otago, New Zealand.
  5. A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
  6. A town in Adelaide Hills council area, South Australia.
  7. A locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.
  8. A local government area, the City of Stirling, in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia.
  9. A suburb within the city in Western Australia.
  10. A Scottish habitational surname derived from the town.
  11. A male given name transferred from the surname.
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IPA pronunciation

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He immediately took the chief command of an army of twenty thousand men, and marched to Stirling.
Charles DickensA Child's History of EnglandProject Gutenberg ebook #699
If you were to set it somewhere else by itself, it would look remarkably like Stirling in a bolder and loftier edition.
Robert Louis StevensonEdinburgh: Picturesque NotesProject Gutenberg ebook #382
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The story goes that a certain abbot told King James IV of Scotland that he would fly from Stirling Castle to Paris.
William J. ClaxtonThe mastery of the airProject Gutenberg ebook #777
We returned to Stirling and took a walk round the castle to see the effect of the sun setting behind the Highland mountains.
James NasmythJames Nasmyth, Engineer: An AutobiographyProject Gutenberg ebook #476
The story of the conversion of drunken John Stirling by the naïve remark of his four-year-old boy, as the mother was reading Matthew xxv.
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966