Burlington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝ.lɪŋ.tən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋtən
Etymology: From Burling + -ton.
The town in Newfoundland derives from a variant of the name Bridlington in Yorkshire and may have been informed by the name of Burlington, Ontario.
Senses: glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
glosses: A community in Nova Scotia.
glosses: A city in Ontario; named for Bridlington, Yorkshire (formerly "Burlington").
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A town in Hartford County, Connecticut.
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A home rule municipality, the county seat of Kit Carson County, Colorado.
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A village in Kane County, Illinois.
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A small town in Carroll County, Indiana; named for Burlington, a Wyandot chief.
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A city, the county seat of Des Moines County, Iowa; named for the city in Vermont.
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A city, the county seat of Coffey County, Kansas; named for the city in Vermont.
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A census-designated place, the county seat of Boone County, Kentucky.
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A small town in Penobscot County, Maine.
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A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts; said to be named for Bridlington, Yorkshire.
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A village in Calhoun County, Michigan.
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A city in Burlington County, New Jersey; a suburb of Philadelphia; named for Bridlington, Yorkshire.
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A town in New York; named for the city in New Jersey.
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A city in Alamance County and Guilford County, North Carolina.
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A small city in Ward County, North Dakota; named for the city in Iowa.
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An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Ohio.
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A census-designated place in Lawrence County, Ohio; named for the city in Vermont.
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A small town in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.
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A small borough of Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
examples: text: Back in 2011, a 9-year-old named Milo Cress found it odd that the restaurants he would go to with his mom in Burlington, Vermont, would automatically serve drinks with a straw, whether or not their customer wanted one.
ref: 2023 August 10, Harvin Bhathal, “Did plastic straw bans work? Yes, but not in the way you’d think.”, in Route Fifty:
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A city, the shire town of Chittenden County, Vermont; the largest city in Vermont; perhaps named for Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, or the prominent Burling family of New York.
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A city in Skagit County, Washington.
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A census-designated place in Mineral County, West Virginia.
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A city in Racine County and Walworth County, Wisconsin; named for the city in Vermont.
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A town in Racine County, Wisconsin.
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A small town in Big Horn County, Wyoming.
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A number of townships in the United States, listed under Burlington Township.
glosses: Abbreviation of Earl of Burlington.
examples: text: One night, October 17, 1944, Burlington coupled 82 cars of Christmas mail for servicemen behind an O5A!
ref: 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 40:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Ellipsis of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
Derived terms: Burlington County