Bowden
专有名词
英文释义
专有名词
- A surname.
- A town in Alberta, Canada.
- A place name:; A hamlet in Stoke Fleming parish, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8448).
- A place name:; A hamlet in Kington Magna parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST7723).
- A place name:; A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Roxburghshire (OS grid ref NT5530).
- A place name:; An unincorporated community in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States.
- A place name:; A census-designated place in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
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词源 1
* As an English surname, from several places in England, derived from Old English boga (“bow”) + dun (“hill”).
* Also as an English surname, from Old English būfan dun (“above the hill”).
* As a Scottish surname, from the place in Roxburghshire from Old English bōthl (“dwelling house”) + denu (“valley”).
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Buadáin (literally “descendant of Buadán”).
* Also as an English surname, variant of Bawden.
* Also as an English surname, from Old English būfan dun (“above the hill”).
* As a Scottish surname, from the place in Roxburghshire from Old English bōthl (“dwelling house”) + denu (“valley”).
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Buadáin (literally “descendant of Buadán”).
* Also as an English surname, variant of Bawden.
词源 2
Uncertain, but the most accepted theory is that it originated from the maiden name of the wife of a surveyor named Williamson, who named the settlement along the Edmonton–Calgary Trail. Another theory states it originated from the
village of Bowdon in Greater Manchester, England.
village of Bowdon in Greater Manchester, England.
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