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Clinton

Clinton

332 2.4
A last name and the name of several towns in the United States
  • proper noun
  • /ˈklɪntən/
translation icon : Clinton
  • Your family go to the Baptist church in Clinton?
  • Clinton police
  • Clinton County

And guess who registers to vote that day in Clinton, LA?

Examples

  • And guess who registers to vote that day in Clinton, LA?

  • We're gonna take a ride up to Port Clinton today.

  • They were seen together in Clinton in early September.

  • I wouldn't go any further south than Clinton Street.

  • That's Broome and Clinton, lower East Side.

  • Students from North Carolina State University in Clinton, NC it's time to spend the wheel of mythicality.

  • Charles Goodwin, who had been mayor of Clinton the night Alma Hall was abducted, was now Judge Goodwin.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Several dozen of Laurie's classmates from Clinton College had attended the mass, along with a sprinkling of faculty.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Munson checked into the Glancy Motel in Clinton at about 2:30 p.m. on June 27.

    Academic text (1993)
  • We're gonna take a ride up to Port Clinton today.

Compounds

The United States government when Bill Clinton was president from 1993 to 2001

9.3

A joking name for CNN that says it supports the Clintons or the Democratic Party

Surface Forms

Clinton main

Etymology

Clinton is also a place name built from clint 'hill' plus tun 'town' (the same root as the English word town). So many towns and places are called Clinton because the name once described a settlement near a hill.