Montgomery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old French.
  2. Bernard Montgomery (Monty), a British army officer.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  4. A number of places in the United States:
  5. The capital city of Alabama, and the county seat of Montgomery County.
  6. A census-designated place in Chatham County, Georgia.
  7. A village in Kane County and Kendall County, Illinois.
  8. A town in Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana.
  9. An unincorporated community in Diamond Lake Township, Dickinson County, Iowa.
  10. An unincorporated community in Trigg County, Kentucky.
  11. A town in Grant Parish, Louisiana.
  12. A town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, named after Richard Montgomery.

Pronunciation

/məntˈɡʌməɹi/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Montgomery.wav En-us-Montgomery.oga

Word forms

Montgomery Montgomerie

Etymology

From a Norman surname, from a place in Normandy (Old French for "Gomeric's hill"). Gumaric was a Germanic personal name composed of *gumô (“man”) and *rīks (“ruler”) (whence the modern French surnames Gomery, Gommery and Gumery or the Galician placename Gomariz).

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