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Meaning of Cowan | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈkəʊən

Definitions

  1. A fishing-boat.
  2. A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
  3. A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
  4. A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)
  5. A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
  6. A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
  7. A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
  8. An outer suburb of Sydney in Hornsby Shire, New South Wales, Australia. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaningbig water”.
  9. Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
  10. A town in western Manitoba, Canada.
  11. A place in the United States:
  12. A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
  13. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
  14. An unincorporated community in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.
  15. A city in Franklin County, Tennessee; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s.

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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