English Explanatory Dictionary

Polk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A number of places in the United States:
  3. An unincorporated community in Will County, Illinois.
  4. An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri, named after the county.
  5. A village in Polk County, Nebraska.
  6. A village in Ashland County, Ohio.
  7. A borough in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
  8. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
  9. A town in Washington County, Wisconsin, named after President James K. Polk.
  10. A number of townships, listed under Polk Township.
verb
  1. To dance the polka.

Pronunciation

En-au-polk.ogg

Word forms

Polk Polks polking polked

Etymology

* As a Scottish surname, shortened from Pollock. * As a Upper Sorbian surname Półk, Pólk, probably shortened from a personal name based on Proto-Slavic *plъkъ (“army, crowd”), see Polka. * As an East German surname of Slavic origin, variant of Polke, itself from a Silesian form of Polish Bolesław.

Derived words

Polk County
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