Duncan

Definitions

1. A male given name from Scottish Gaelic anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Donnchadh; the name of two early saints and of two kings of Scotland.
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2. A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
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3. A surname from Irish, a variant of Dinkin.
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4. An Irish surname, a variant of Donegan.
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5. An Irish surname, a variant of Dunican.
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6. An Irish surname, adopted as an anglicization of Ó Donnchadha (whence Donoghue).
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7. A locality in Kangaroo Island council area, South Australia; named for politician John Duncan.
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8. A city in the Regional District of Cowichan Valley, British Columbia, Canada; named for early settler William Chalmers Duncan.
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9. A locale in the United States:
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10. A town in Greenlee County, Arizona; named for copper businessman Duncan Smith.
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11. A township in Mercer County, Illinois.
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12. A census-designated place in Hancock County, Iowa.
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13. An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.
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14. An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Kentucky.
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15. A township in Houghton County, Michigan.
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16. A town in Bolivar County, Mississippi.
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17. A township in Sullivan County, Missouri.
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18. An unincorporated community in Webster County and Wright County, Missouri.
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19. A village in Platte County, Nebraska; named for early resident Wood B. Duncan.
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20. An unincorporated community in Buckhorn Township, Harnett County, North Carolina.
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21. A city, the county seat of Stephens County, Oklahoma; named for early settler William Duncan.
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22. A township in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
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23. A town in Spartanburg County, South Carolina; named for landowner Leroy Duncan.
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24. A river in British Columbia, Canada; running 206 km near Mount Dawson into the Kootenay Lake; named for prospector John Duncan.
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25. A short river in the Southern Alps, West Coast Region, New Zealand.
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Equivalents

Examples

“For them the gracious Duncan I have⟳ murder'd”

“"Country?" replied Cuddie; "ou, the country's weel eneugh, and it werena that dour deevil, Calver'se, ( they ca' him Dundee now) that's stirring about yet in the Highlands, they say⟳, with a' the Donalds, and Duncans, and Dugalds, that ever wore bottomless breeks, driving about wi' him, to set⟳ things asteer again, - - -”

“His full name⟳ is Benji Duncan Geoffrey Rigby-Monk. 'You're joking,' Kit said, when I first told him. Benji? Not even Benjamin?' ''Duncan and Geoffrey are his two granddads'names ― both unglamorous and old-dufferish, in Kit's view⟳, and not worth inflicting on a new generation ― and Rigby-Monk is a fusion of Fran's surname and Anton's.”

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