Associations to the word «Huntington»

Wiktionary

HUNTINGTON, proper noun. An English habitational surname for someone who lived at any of several places whose name is derived from hunta, hunter, especially from Huntingdon
HUNTINGTON, proper noun. A city in West Virginia, United States

Dictionary definition

HUNTINGTON, noun. United States physician who first described Huntington's chorea.
HUNTINGTON, noun. American revolutionary leader who signed the Declaration of Independence and was president of the Continental Congress (1731-1796).
HUNTINGTON, noun. United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900).
HUNTINGTON, noun. A city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats