English Explanatory Dictionary

Harmon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A number of places in the United States:
  3. A village in Lee County, Illinois.
  4. An unincorporated community in Red River Parish, Louisiana.
  5. An unincorporated community in Ellis County, Oklahoma.
  6. A ghost town in Stinnett, Washburn County, Wisconsin.

Word forms

Harmon

Etymology

* As an English surname, by way of Norman/Anglo-Norman/Middle English/Old French from Proto-West Germanic *hari (“army”) + *mann (“man”), similar to Herman. Also Americanized from German variants such as Harmann, Hermann. Compare Harman. * As an Irish surname, variant of Hargadon, from Ó hArgadáin (literally “descendant of Argadán”), from a diminutive of airgead (“silver”).

Derived words

Harmon County
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