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dearborn
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dearborn \Dear"born\, n. A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 529 Housing Units (2000): 258 Land area (2000): 0.858955 sq. miles (2.224682 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.012623 sq. miles (0.032693 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.871578 sq. miles (2.257375 sq. km) FIPS code: 18658 Located within: Missouri ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dearborn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Dearborn (1886–1941), American track and field athlete Emma Dearborn, creator of the Speedwriting System Henry Dearborn (1751–1829), American physician, general, and politician Henry ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of dearborn English) n. A city in Michigan, USA
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"light four-wheeled wagon," 1821, American English, supposedly from the name of the inventor, by tradition said to be Gen. Henry Dearborn (1751-1829).
Usage examples of dearborn.
Wexford was with the Dearborns and Howard at Vv home playing bridge a burglary took place in Kenbourne Vale.
Little by little, the restaurants on the block would suffer, too, their awnings getting ripped, the big yellow lightbulbs on the Laikon marquee burning out, the Greek bakery on the corner being taken over by South Yemenis from Dearborn.
It starts at the base of the old Grand Circle among weathered brown skyscrapers and slashes straight as a knife westward through where the city becomes horizontal, refusing to crimp until it becomes US-12 just east of Dearborn.
To Mayor Hartwell Thorin, Chancellor Kimba Rimer, and High Sheriff Herkimer Avery, it sent greetings and recommended to their notice the three young men who delivered this document, Masters Dearborn, Stockworth, and Heath.
Now the black dream-mobile, which had running boards and a spare-tire well on the trunk, gathered speed as it cruised southward on Jefferson Street, which would not be Jefferson now but a street in Chicago, South Dearborn or South Clark.
I had a thirty-five-hundred-dollar-a-year job in Dearborn editing a furniture trade magazine, and I was drafted into the Signal Corps and sent to write training films.