Remington

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An English habitational surname from Old English; (art) used specifically of Frederic Remington (1861–1909), an American artist who specialized in depictions of the Old West.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
  3. A town in Indiana; named for the founder of the town's general store.
  4. A neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland; named for early landowner William Remington.
  5. A town in Virginia.
  6. A hamlet in Ohio.
  7. A town in Wisconsin.
noun
  1. A gun produced by the American manufacturer Remington Arms.
  2. A kind of typewriter.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹɛmɪŋtən/

Word forms

Remington Remingtons

Etymology

The surname is from Rimington, from Old English rima (“edge, border”) + -ing + -tun (literally “settlement by the boundary stream”).

Derived words

Remingtonocetus Rem Remington raider
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.