English Explanatory Dictionary

Mountcastle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
  2. An unincorporated community in New Kent County, Virginia, United States.
  3. A surname from Irish.

Word forms

Mountcastle Mountcastles

Etymology

Perhaps a habitational surname from a now lost place, from mount + castle. Alternatively, a further Anglicization of the Irish surname Mountcashell.

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