English Explanatory Dictionary

Packard

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A former brand of automobile (often associated with wealth and luxury in the 1920s through 1940s).
  3. A ghost town in Whitley County, Kentucky, United States.

Pronunciation

/ˈpækɚd/

Word forms

Packard Packards

Etymology

Genealogy websites offer three or four hypotheses about the surname; none is confirmed. (Ideas include possible cognation with packer or with Pickard; evidence for or against is not presented.) The automotive brand is from the surname, via the brothers James Ward Packard and William Doud Packard. The ghost town in Kentucky, is named after a certain Amelia Packard.

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