Linden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As a Dutch, German and Jewish surname, plural form of Linde.
* As a Dutch and West Flemish surname, from several placenames called Linden or Lienden. Also shortened from Vanderlinden.
* As a Swedish surname, from lind (“lime tree”). Compare Lindeen.
* As an English surname, variant of Lindon.
* As an Irish surname, shortened from McLinden, itself a variant of McClinton.
Senses: glosses: An English surname from Old English, a variant of Lyndon.
glosses: A Scottish surname, a variant of Linton.
glosses: A surname from Dutch, a variant of Lynden.
glosses: A surname from German, a variant of Lindner.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, or for the linden tree.
glosses: A town in Hesse, Germany.
glosses: A town in Kaiserslautern district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
glosses: A town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
glosses: A town in Westerwaldkreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
glosses: A village in the Netherlands.
glosses: A town in Switzerland.
glosses: A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa; named for founder Johannes van de Linde.
glosses: A town in Guyana, the second-largest settlement in the country; named for Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, 2nd President of Guyana.
glosses: A village in New South Wales.
glosses: A ghost town in Western Australia; named for nearby Mount Linden, itself named for a prospector in the area.
glosses: A village in Alberta.
glosses: A community in Nova Scotia.
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A city, the county seat of Marengo County, Alabama; named for the Battle of Hohenlinden, in honor the Bonapartist refugees who were Marengo County's first European settlers.
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An unincorporated community in Arizona.
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A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Idaho; named for the community in Christian County, Missouri.
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A town in Indiana.
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A city in Iowa.
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A city in Michigan.
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An unincorporated community in Minnesota.
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An unincorporated community in Atchison County, Missouri; named for the linden trees in the area.
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An unincorporated community in Christian County, Missouri; named for the town in Tennessee.
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A city in Union County, New Jersey; named for linden trees brought to the area from Germany.
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A town in North Carolina.
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A neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.
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A town, the county seat of Perry County, Tennessee; named for "Hohenlinden", a poem by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell.
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A city, the county seat of Cass County, Texas.
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An unincorporated community in Virginia.
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An unincorporated community in Wise County, West Virginia.
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An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia; named for Confederate officer Charles Linden Broadus.
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A town and village in Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Lake Linden