Monroe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mənˈɹoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: From Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”) + Roe, a river in Northern Ireland, meaning "man from the River Roe".
Senses: glosses: A Scottish topographic surname from Scottish Gaelic from Gaelic words meaning "foot of a hill"
glosses: A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A townland in County Meath, Ireland.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
The former name of an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, now Hales Grove.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A town in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A city, the county seat of Walton County, Georgia.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A small town in Adams County, Indiana.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A small unincorporated community in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A small city in Jasper County, Iowa.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
An unincorporated community in Hart County, Kentucky.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A sizable city, the parish seat of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A town in Waldo County, Maine.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A small town in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A city, the county seat of Monroe County, Michigan.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A village in Platte County, Nebraska.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A small town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A sizable town and village in Orange County, New York.
examples: text: I was born and raised in Monroe, the seat of Union County, North Carolina. That makes me, as an indulgent friend once put it, a “country boy.”
ref: 2005, Jesse Helms, “Introduction”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xv:
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A city, the county seat of Union County, North Carolina.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A city in Warren County and Butler County, Ohio.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Ohio.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A small unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A small city in Benton County, Oregon.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A borough of Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A small town in Turner County, South Dakota.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
An unincorporated community in Overton County, Tennessee.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A small city in Sevier County, Utah.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
An unincorporated community in Amherst County, Virginia.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A city in Snohomish County, Washington.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A small town in Adams County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A town and city, the county seat of Green County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Monroe Township.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Marilyn Monroe
Monroe County
Monroe Doctrine
Monroeism
Monroeist
Monroeistic
Monroemania
Monroe piercing
Monroesque
Monroeville
Monrovia
North Monroeville
Related terms: Munro