English Explanatory Dictionary

Govan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. An urban area in Glasgow, Glasgow council area, Scotland, on the south bank of the River Clyde (OS grid ref NS5565).
  3. A small town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  4. A small town in Bamberg County, South Carolina, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Washington, United States, considered to be a ghost town.

Word forms

Govan Govans

Etymology

Uncertain. Traditionally said to derive from Irish gobán (“gag, muzzle”), equivalent to gob (“beak”) + -án. Clancy (1997) and Forsyth (2002) preferred a Cumbric formation, equivalent to Welsh go- (“under”) + fan, the soft mutation of ban (“peak”).

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