Davenport Definition

dăvən-pôrt
noun
A large couch or sofa, sometimes convertible into a bed.
Webster's New World
A small writing desk with a hinged lid.
Webster's New World
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A habitational surname​ from the town in Cheshire.

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A surname​ of Irish origin from the Gaelic Ó Donndubhartaigh.

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A surname​ of Anglo-Norman origin: de avesne port, where avesne is derived from Frankish avisna ("field" see:Wiese).

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Other Word Forms of Davenport

Noun

Singular:
davenport
Plural:
davenports

Origin of Davenport

  • After the A.H. Davenport Company, a furniture manufacturer in Boston in the 1800s

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Perhaps from the name of a manufacturer or the person who originally commissioned the design

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Sofa sense was named for the now defunct furniture manufacturer A.H. Davenport Company.

    From Wiktionary

Davenport Sentence Examples

  • Quot gmac's schmitt years auto insurance davenport illinois and quot which will be insurance manager.

  • This suspicion seems to have arisen chiefly from his intimacy with Christopher Davenport, better known as Francis a Sancta Clara, a learned Franciscan friar who became chaplain to Queen 1 An obviously erroneous entry in the Admission Book states that he had been at school under Mr. Lovering for ten years, and was in his fifteenth year.

  • The people of Connecticut still remember Abraham Davenport, because he was a wise judge and a brave lawmaker.

  • In 1637 he emigrated with Davenport to Massachusetts, and in the following year (March 1638) he and Davenport founded New Haven.

  • Her father (the Congregational minister of the town) and her mother were both descended from members of the company that, under John Davenport, founded New Haven in 1638; and the community in which she spent her childhood was one of the most intellectual in New England.

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