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thompson
/ˈtɑmp.sən/
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What does thompson mean?
noun
- A member of a Salish people of British Columbia.
- Ellipsis of Thompson submachine gun (“Tommy gun”).
proper noun
- A British surname transferred from the given name.
More meanings (18)
proper noun
- A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- A village in Bulgaria.
- A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TL9296).
- A city in Northern Manitoba, Canada.
- A rural municipality in Pembina Valley Region, Manitoba; in full, the Rural Municipality of Thompson.
- An unincorporated community in Bullock County, Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Napa County, California.
- A town in Windham County, Connecticut.
- A minor city in Winnebago County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Audrain County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Nebraska.
- A town in Sullivan County, New York.
- A city in Grand Forks County, North Dakota.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Geauga County, Ohio.
- A borough in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Erin, Washington County, Wisconsin.
- A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Thompson Township.
- An Interior Salish language spoken in British Columbia and formerly in Washington.
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IPA pronunciation
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But Mrs. Thompson had an unfortunate habit of slipping out in an intoxicated condition, and chattering with the neighbours.
So we've been driving cattle all day, riding about twenty miles, and fording the Big Thompson about as many times.
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Mr. Thompson believes also that there is evidence to show that the interculary month was added at a period less than six years.
Captain Thompson, finding that nothing could be done that night to get off the CULLODEN, advanced with the intention of anchoring athwart-hawse of the ORIENT.
Mr. Yates Thompson has a mid-twelfth century manuscript bound in the monastic style, the leather being stamped with cold irons of many curious rectangular shapes.