English Explanatory Dictionary

Hanford

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A Welsh surname (the most common in England and the United States).
  2. A city, the county seat of Kings County, in central California, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa.
  4. A former small agricultural community located in Benton County, Washington, which was depopulated in 1943 in order to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site.
  5. A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST8411).
  6. A suburb in south-west Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8742).

Word forms

Hanford Hanfords Handford

Etymology

From Welsh hen ("old") and ford ("a way"): the old way (Source: William Arthur 1857).

Derived words

Hanfordite
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