- administrative division of E Scotland: formerly a county
- fishing port in E Scotland, on the North Sea
- town in NW Md.: site of Aberdeen Proving Ground of the U.S. Army
Aberdeen
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Aberdeen
- A city of northeast Scotland on the North Sea at the mouth of the Dee River. It is known as “the Granite City” because stone from local quarries is used in many of its buildings.x
- A city of northwest South Dakota. It was founded as a railroad stop in 1881.x
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Proper noun
- A port city in Scotland, on the North Sea.
- A county in northeastern Scotland.
- A CDP in Florida
- A village in the State of Georgia
- A city in Idaho
- A CDP in Porter County, Indiana
- A city in eastern Maryland, home of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
- A city in Mississippi
- A town in New South Wales
- A town in North Carolina
- A community in Nova Scotia
- A village in Ohio
- A community in Ontario
- A town in Saskatchewan
- A town in Eastern Cape, South Africa
- A city in northeastern South Dakota.
- A city in Washington
Usage notes
- Definitions 7 and 16 use the US pronunciation.
Noun
(plural Aberdeens)
- (usually capitalized) A wide evenly curved fishhook.
- (usually capitalized) Alternative form of Aberdeen terrier.
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Sentence Examples
- At Aberdeen, Monroe county, on the 13th of February 1899, and 107° F.
- There was also a small sheet of white paper listing 11.2 gallons of gas purchased in Aberdeen, Maryland, a mileage figure and the amount of the purchase.
- Of Aberdeen by the Great North of Scotland railway.
- The university of Aberdeen conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D.
- Many condemnations followed, and hundreds of politicals were immured in hideous dungeons, a state of things which provoked Gladstones famous letters to Lord Aberdeen, in which Bourbon rule was branded for all time as the negation of God erected into a system of government.
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