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place name
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(Social Science / Human Geography) the name of a geographical location, such as a town or area
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Noun1.place name - the name by which a geographical place is knownplace name - the name by which a geographical place is known
name - a language unit by which a person or thing is known; "his name really is George Washington"; "those are two names for the same thing"
troponomy, troponymy - the place names of a region or a language considered collectively
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Sometimes mundane (Zorro Bay was named for the Z that someone spray-painted on a rock in the early 1970s), sometimes fascinating (Kanaka Bluff was named for William Naukama, a native Hawaiian who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1840s), the place names in this volume tell the colorful history of Canada's westernmost province.
Place names like Jamaica Row, Poets Corner and AB Row have their origins in history.
The most popular place name was Dublin with 158 searches, followed by Dingle in Co Kerry with 103.
 
 
 
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