English Explanatory Dictionary

Chaplin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. A place name:
  3. A number of places in the United States
  4. A town in Windham County, Connecticut.
  5. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.
  6. An unincorporated community and coal town in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
  7. A number of places in Canada
  8. A community in Halifax regional municipality, Nova Scotia.
  9. A rural municipality in south-central Saskatchewan; in full, the Rural Municipality of Chaplin No. 164.
  10. A village in the Rural Municipality of Chaplin, Saskatchewan
noun
  1. Any of a class of bacterial proteins that form fibrils instead of a coiled structure.

Pronunciation

/ˈt͡ʃæplɪn/

Word forms

Chaplin Chaplins Chaplain

Etymology

An occupational surname for a chaplain, from Middle English and Old French chapelain.

Synonyms

Rural Municipality of Chaplin No. 164 Rural Municipality No. 164 Rural Municipality of Chaplin

Derived words

Chaplinesque Chaplinian Charlie Chaplin mustache

Translations

Arabic: تْشَابْلِن Bulgarian: Ча́плин Chinese Mandarin: 卓別林 /卓别林 Chinese Mandarin: 查普林 Japanese: チャップリン Korean: 채플린 Marathi: चॅप्लिन Russian: Ча́плин
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