English Explanatory Dictionary

Penn

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A place in England:
  3. A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, previously in Chiltern district (OS grid ref SP9094).
  4. A hamlet in Wootton Fitzpaine parish, west Dorset (OS grid ref SY3495).
  5. A western suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO8996).
  6. A place in the United States:
  7. An unincorporated community in Ramsey County, North Dakota.
  8. An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
  9. A borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, named after William Penn.
  10. A number of townships in the United States, including in Illinois (2), Indiana (3), Iowa (4), Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio (2), and Pennsylvania (12), listed under Penn Township.
  11. University of Pennsylvania

Word forms

Penn

Etymology

* As an English surname, named after various places such as Penn in Buckinghamshire or Staffordshire, of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *penn (“(hill) top, head”). * Also as an English surname, from the noun pen (“enclosure”). * Also as an English surname, spelling variant of Parnell. * As a German surname, from Sorbian pien (“tree stump”), from Proto-Slavic *pьňь.

Synonyms

UPenn

Related words

Penn State

Derived words

East Penn Lower Penn Penn effect Pennfield Pennsville Pennsylvania
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