Aberdeen Definition

ăbər-dēn, ăbər-dēn
proper name
Administrative division of E Scotland.
Webster's New World
Fishing port in E Scotland, on the North Sea.
Webster's New World
Town in NW Md.: site of Aberdeen Proving Ground of the U.S. Army.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A port city in Scotland, on the North Sea.

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A county in northeastern Scotland.

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A CDP in Florida.

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A village in the State of Georgia.

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A city in Idaho.

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noun

(usually capitalized) A wide evenly curved fishhook.

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(usually capitalized) Alternative form of Aberdeen terrier.
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other
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.
American Heritage
A city of northwest South Dakota. It was founded as a railroad stop in 1881.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Aberdeen

Noun

Singular:
aberdeen
Plural:
aberdeens

Origin of Aberdeen

  • The first element is either Scottish Gaelic aber (“river mouth”) or Pictish aber (“confluence”). The second element is Don (“river in Scotland”) (the site of Old Aberdeen). Written Aberdon circa 1187 and Aberden circa 1214.

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Aberdeen Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It is certain that he was a secular priest, and that he composed his history in the latter part of the 14th century; and it is probable that he was a chaplain in the cathedral of Aberdeen.

  • He held the chair of Natural Philosophy in Marischal College, Aberdeen, from 1856 till the fusion of the two colleges there in 1860.

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Words Starting With

AABABE

Words Ending With

NENEEN

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