Huntington Definition

hŭntĭng-tən
proper name
1821-1900; U.S. railroad magnate.
Webster's New World
1731-96; Am. statesman: signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Webster's New World
City in W W.Va., on the Ohio River.
Webster's New World
pronoun

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.

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A city in West Virginia, United States.
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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.
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Huntington Sentence Examples

  • The principal cities of the state are Wheeling, Huntington, Parkersburg, Charleston (the capital), Martinsburg, Fairmont and Grafton.

  • The West Virginia Colored Orphans' Home near Huntington is not under state control, but has received appropriations from the legislature.

  • In 1908 the Boston Opera Company was incorporated, and a site for an opera house was obtained on the north side of Huntington Avenue.

  • It is served by the Chesapeake & Ohio (being a terminal of the Lexington and Big Sandy Divisions) and the Norfolk & Western railways, and is connected with Huntington, West Virginia, by an electric line.

  • Huntington is served by three railways - the Wabash, the Erie (which has car shops and division headquarters here) and the Cincinnati, Bluffton & Chicago (which has machine shops here), and by the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Company, whose car and repair shops and power station are in Huntington.

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Words Starting With

HHUHUN

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NONTON

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