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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cumberland \Cumberland\, Cumberland River \Cumberland River\prop. n. a tributary of the Ohio River.
Syn: .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English Cumbra land (945) "region of the Cymry" (see Cymric).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A maritime former border county of England, since 1974 absorbed into Cumbria. 2 A city in Allegheny County, Maryland, USA. Cumberland, Maryland is the county seat of Allegheny County. 3 A town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. 4 (surname: English)
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 162
Land area (2000): 0.483201 sq. miles (1.251484 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.483201 sq. miles (1.251484 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19694
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.852371 N, 81.658481 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43732
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Headwords:
Cumberland
Housing Units (2000): 2190
Land area (2000): 1.891967 sq. miles (4.900172 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.034827 sq. miles (0.090201 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.926794 sq. miles (4.990373 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16336
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.783528 N, 85.952308 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 46229
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Headwords:
Cumberland
Housing Units (2000): 144
Land area (2000): 0.601880 sq. miles (1.558862 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.601880 sq. miles (1.558862 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17760
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.273650 N, 94.871180 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50843
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Headwords:
Cumberland
Housing Units (2000): 1288
Land area (2000): 4.576666 sq. miles (11.853509 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.010565 sq. miles (0.027364 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.587231 sq. miles (11.880873 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19108
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 36.977016 N, 82.987434 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 40823
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Headwords:
Cumberland
Housing Units (2000): 11143
Land area (2000): 9.069012 sq. miles (23.488632 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.012485 sq. miles (0.032336 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.081497 sq. miles (23.520968 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21325
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.647687 N, 78.762869 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Cumberland
Housing Units (2000): 1134
Land area (2000): 3.395502 sq. miles (8.794310 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.588453 sq. miles (1.524087 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.983955 sq. miles (10.318397 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18025
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.535892 N, 92.023389 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54829
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Headwords:
Cumberland
Housing Units (2000): 3567
Land area (2000): 305.822498 sq. miles (792.076599 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.024642 sq. miles (13.013762 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 310.847140 sq. miles (805.090361 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 36.779996 N, 85.406691 W
Headwords:
Cumberland, KY
Cumberland County
Cumberland County, KY
Housing Units (2000): 4876
Land area (2000): 346.016683 sq. miles (896.179057 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.979918 sq. miles (2.537976 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 346.996601 sq. miles (898.717033 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.272064 N, 88.263215 W
Headwords:
Cumberland, IL
Cumberland County
Cumberland County, IL
Housing Units (2000): 122600
Land area (2000): 835.509263 sq. miles (2163.958964 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 381.378615 sq. miles (987.766036 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1216.887878 sq. miles (3151.725000 sq. km)
Located within: Maine (ME), FIPS 23
Location: 43.784479 N, 70.327978 W
Headwords:
Cumberland, ME
Cumberland County
Cumberland County, ME
Housing Units (2000): 118425
Land area (2000): 652.716455 sq. miles (1690.527787 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.740199 sq. miles (14.867046 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 658.456654 sq. miles (1705.394833 sq. km)
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.056213 N, 78.907247 W
Headwords:
Cumberland, NC
Cumberland County
Cumberland County, NC
Housing Units (2000): 52863
Land area (2000): 489.297022 sq. miles (1267.273415 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 187.294976 sq. miles (485.091741 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 676.591998 sq. miles (1752.365156 sq. km)
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 39.399565 N, 75.090565 W
Headwords:
Cumberland, NJ
Cumberland County
Cumberland County, NJ
Housing Units (2000): 22442
Land area (2000): 681.611058 sq. miles (1765.364462 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.337375 sq. miles (8.643761 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 684.948433 sq. miles (1774.008223 sq. km)
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.946153 N, 84.998248 W
Headwords:
Cumberland, TN
Cumberland County
Cumberland County, TN
Housing Units (2000): 86951
Land area (2000): 550.166358 sq. miles (1424.924264 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.977072 sq. miles (2.530606 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 551.143430 sq. miles (1427.454870 sq. km)
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.201203 N, 77.133685 W
Headwords:
Cumberland, PA
Cumberland County
Cumberland County, PA
Housing Units (2000): 4085
Land area (2000): 298.447305 sq. miles (772.974938 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.282435 sq. miles (3.321491 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 299.729740 sq. miles (776.296429 sq. km)
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.503966 N, 78.268445 W
Headwords:
Cumberland, VA
Cumberland County
Cumberland County, VA
Wikipedia
Cumberland is one of the historic counties of England.
Cumberland may also refer to:
Cumberland ( ; locally ) is a historic county of North West England that had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. It was bordered by Northumberland to the east, County Durham to the southeast, Westmorland and Lancashire to the south, and Dumfriesshire in Scotland to the north. It formed an administrative county from 1889 to 1974 (excluding Carlisle from 1914) and now forms part of Cumbria. (In rhotic varieties of English, the pronunciation is kəmbərlənd, that is, with a plain "r" sound in the middle syllable.)
Cumberland was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1968. It was created in the British North America Act, 1867, and was abolished in 1966 when it was merged into Cumberland—Colchester North riding. The district consisted of the County of Cumberland.
Cumberland is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. It was created for the 1912 election, and was abolished into Prince Albert East-Cumberland in 1967. It was re-created for the 1975 election. It is the largest electoral district in the province, and at the 2007 general election was the safest for the New Democratic Party.
Cumberland, officially known as Central Cumberland, were a rugby league team in 1908 based in the region of Cumberland Plain in western Sydney. They were one of the nine original teams in the first New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) season, albeit admitted after the first round of matches had already been played. They are the shortest lived team in the history of first-grade rugby league in Australia after disbanding late that year. Statistically, they are the club with the poorest all-time record, only lasting eight games in their inaugural and only season.
Cumberland was an electoral district in the Northwest Territories from 1891–1894, the riding was in the rural area to the northeast of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Cumberland disappeared in 1894 when it merged with the newly created Prince Albert East.
A new incarnation of the cumberland district has existed in Saskatchewan from 1912 to present.
Cumberland was a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It existed from 1867 to 1949.
Cumberland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Frederick William Cumberland (1821–1881), engineer and politician
- George Cumberland (1754–1848), art collector and artist
- Richard Cumberland (dramatist) (1732–1811), civil servant and dramatist
- Richard Cumberland (philosopher) (1631–1718), bishop and philosopher
- Vic Cumberland (1877–1927), Australian Rules footballer
Cumberland is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire. It was divided between the constituencies of Cumberland East and Cumberland West in 1832.
Cumberland Drugs was a pharmacy chain that operated stores in Quebec (with majority of them in the Montreal area) and Eastern Ontario. Cumberland Drugs was sold in 1997 upon the retirement of Morrie Neiss (none of his heirs were interested in carrying on the family business), selling most stores to Jean Coutu, Uniprix and Essaim/Obonsoins (now Proxim). Cumberland Drugs' headquarters in Dorval were on Dorval Ave. The flagship store in Dorval, Quebec, Canada on Herron Blvd. is now a Jean Coutu store.
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Usage examples of "cumberland".
This road was made at the expense of the government as far as Cumberland, a town situated among the Alleghany mountains, and, from the nature of the ground, must have been a work of great cost.
Of these, twenty-six thousand were to be Hanoverians, and, in consequence of engagements entered into for that purpose, twelve thousand Hessians, six thousand Brunswickers, two thousand Saxe-Gothans, and a thousand Lunenburghers, to be joined by a considerable body of Prussians, the whole commanded by his royal highness the duke of Cumberland.
This claim was disregarded by the council of regency, and the Bundesrat declared that the accession of the duke of Cumberland would be inimical to the peace and security of the empire on account of his attitude towards Prussia.
Cumberland, as we had light carioles, which enabled us to ride nearly the whole day, warmly covered up with a buffalo robe.
In your movement upon Chattanooga I think it probable that you include some combination of the force near Cumberland Gap under General Morgan.
The Rebels added considerably to those in their hands by their captures at Chickamauga, while we gained a great many at Mission Ridge, Cumberland Gap and elsewhere, so that at the time we arrived in Richmond the Rebels had about fifteen thousand prisoners in their hands and our Government had about twenty-five thousand.
On the sixteenth day of April, the duke of Cumberland, having made the proper dispositions, decamped from Nairn early in the morning, and after a march of nine miles perceived the highlanders drawn up in order of battle, to the number of four thou-sand men, in thirteen divisions, supplied with some pieces of artillery.
The most important of the latter are the column at Bewcastle, Cumberland, believed to commemorate Alhfrith, the son of Oswio, who died about 670, and the cross at Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, which is probably about a century later.
September 11, 1813, which purported to be from Colonel Fossett of Vermont to General MacComb, advising him of massive reinforcements on the way to aid him against the Canadian General Prevost in the Battle of Plattsburg: it was entrusted to an Irishwoman of Cumberland Head whom the U.
A magnificent carriage bearing the Cumberland arms pulled up in front of the Manzana de Oro, the footman opened and bowed low before the poly chrome and gilt door, and four people descended.
Her Grace of Cumberland nodded to the brace of doormen who stood at rigid attention at either side of the entrance to the Manzana de Oro, and the four of them marched inside.
Straightening himself from a bow which caused his Cumberland corset to creak ominously, he became aware of General Oakenshaw, and realized, with immense satisfaction, that that distinguished gentleman was observing this passage with blatant revulsion.
And now even the low-lying foothills in which the elder Hunter had tried to see from homesick eyes a resemblance to the outguard of his own Cumberlands were no longer given over to pasturage.
Although the Cumberland lead pencils were in great demand owing to the fact that they were the first to successfully meet a long-felt want, they nevertheless owed their permanent and wide-spread reputation-- more especially in artistic circles--to their excellent quality.
The duke of Cumberland having secured the important posts of Stirling and Perth with the Hessian battalions, advanced with the army to Aberdeen, where he was joined by the duke of Gordon, the earls of Aberdeen and Findlater, the laird of Grant, and other persons of distinction.