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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of western West Virginia on the Ohio River west of Charleston. Founded in 1871 as a railroad terminus, it has glass and chemical industries.
  • Samuel,American Revolutionary leader. He was president of the Continental Congress (1779–1781 and 1783), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and governor of Connecticut (1786–1796).
  • Collis Potter,American transportation executive who built the western section of the first US transcontinental railroad (completed 1869).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun an English habitational surname for someone who lived at any of several places whose name is derived from Old English hunta, hunter, especially from Huntingdon
  • proper noun A city in West Virginia, United States

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun American revolutionary leader who signed the Declaration of Independence and was president of the Continental Congress (1731-1796)
  • noun a city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha
  • noun United States physician who first described Huntington's chorea
  • noun United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900)

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