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Cumberland definition

Cum·ber·land (kum′bər lənd)

  1. former county of NW England, now part of Cumbria county

  2. Etymology: after William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65), son of George II; Brit general

    river in S Ky. & N Tenn., flowing west into the Ohio at the S Ill. border: 687 mi (1,106 km)

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