English Explanatory Dictionary

Livingstone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A Scottish surname from Old English, variant of Livingston.
  2. David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and African explorer; he discovered the Zambezi River (1851) and Victoria Falls (1855); Henry M. Stanley found him in Tanzania (1871), and together they attempted to find the source of the Nile.
  3. A city in Southern Province, Zambia, named after David Livingstone.
  4. A local government area in central Queensland, Australia; in full, the Shire of Livingstone.

Word forms

Livingstone

Derived words

Livingstone Falls
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