English Explanatory Dictionary

Dallas

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A placename:
  2. A number of places in the United States:
  3. A large city, the county seat of Dallas County, in northeastern Texas.
  4. An unincorporated community in Polk County, Arkansas.
  5. A ghost town in Ouray County, Colorado.
  6. A city, the county seat of Paulding County, Georgia.
  7. A former city, now part of Melcher-Dallas, Marion County, Iowa.
  8. A town in Gaston County, North Carolina.
  9. A city, the county seat of Polk County, Oregon.
  10. A borough and township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
  11. A small town in Gregory County, South Dakota, named after Dallas, Texas.
  12. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.

Pronunciation

/ˈdæləs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Dallas.wav

Word forms

Dallas

Etymology

# The Texas city was named after George M. Dallas, vice president to Polk; family name is evolved from dalhous (13th c.), meaning "dweller at the house in the dale," from dale + house. # The Scottish place-name is from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh dôl (“meadow, haugh”) + gwas (“abode”).

Derived words

Dallas City Dallas County Dallasite East Dallas Melcher-Dallas

Translations

Arabic: دَالَاس Bulgarian: Да́лас Burmese: ဒါးလတ်စ် Chinese Mandarin: 達拉斯 /达拉斯 Esperanto: Dallas Finnish: Dallas Galician: Dallas Georgian: დალასი German: Dallas Greek: Ντάλλας Hebrew: דאלאס Japanese: ダラス Korean: 달라스 Latin: Dallāsium Lithuanian: Dalasas Marathi: डॅलस Polish: Dallas Portuguese: Dallas Russian: Да́ллас Telugu: డల్లాసు Telugu: డల్లాసుపురం Turkish: Dallas
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