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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Vaughan

from Welsh fychan, mutation of bychan "small."

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Vaughan

Vaughan ( ; 2011 population 288,301) is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is within the region of York, just north of Toronto. Vaughan was the fastest-growing municipality in Canada between 1996 and 2006, achieving a population growth rate of 80.2% according to Statistics Canada having nearly doubled in population since 1991. It is the fifth-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area, and the 17th largest city in Canada.

Vaughan (surname)

Vaughan and Vaughn are surnames, originally Welsh, though also used as a form of the Irish surname McMahon. Vaughan derives from the Welsh word bychan, meaning "small". The word mutates to fychan , and so corresponds to the English name Little. Fychan literally means, "small" but also "junior" or "younger" (See Ednyfed Fychan for more).

People with the surname Vaughan or Vaughn include:

Vaughan (electoral district)

Vaughan was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 until 2015.

The riding covered the fast-growing region of Vaughan north of Toronto.

The riding was created in 2003 from parts of Vaughan—King—Aurora riding. It consisted of the part of the City of Vaughan that lies west of Highway 400 or north of Rutherford Road.

Vaughan (disambiguation)

Vaughan is a city in southern Ontario (Canada).

Vaughan may also refer to:

  • Vaughan's identity, a mathematical concept
  • Vaughan (surname), list of people with this surname
  • Vaughan (given name), list of people with this given name
  • Vaughan (electoral district), in Ontario
  • Vaughan, Indiana
  • Vaughan, Mississippi
  • Vaughan, North Carolina
  • Vaughan, West Virginia
  • Vaughan, Victoria, Australia
  • Vaughan Springs, Victoria, Australia
  • Vaughan, Nova Scotia
  • Vaughan Road, in Toronto, Ontario
  • Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing, an American maker of striking tools
  • Mount Vaughan, a mountain in Antarctica
Vaughan (provincial electoral district)

Vaughan is a provincial riding in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2007.

The riding covers the fast-growing region of Vaughan north of Toronto.

It consists of the part of the City of Vaughan that lies west of Highway 400 and north of Rutherford Road.

Vaughan (given name)

Vaughan is the given name of:

  • Vaughan Jones (born 1952), New Zealand mathematician
  • Vaughan Savidge (born 1956), newsreader and announcer on BBC Radio
  • Vaughan Coveny (born 1971), New Zealand football (soccer) player
  • Vaughan Gething (born 1974), Welsh politician

Usage examples of "vaughan".

John looked very black, for even with him the feeling about the Whartons and the Vaughans and the Fletchers was very strong.

Still, the eyes were the most arresting features of the two Neanderthals now facing Mary Vaughan.

Or he may have had the Sagittarius carved for the reason Canon VAUGHAN suggests, and then, remembering how good a sign it was astrologically, had the Pisces added to complete the effect.

Vaughan, of the Athenium of that city, stated to me that he had found the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, in the hand-writing of Mr.

He was as much an expert on ancient DNA as Mary Vaughan was—he’d been with the Ancient Biomolecules Centre at Oxford, for Christ’s sake!

I'm going to be Vaughan the Terrible, Duke of Trasimere, and I'm on the trail of the evil prince and sorcerer Oggbad the Foul, and if anyone disbelieves or doubts my word, I'll punish his impertinence with a couple of blasts from my fusion guns, which are real.

President Vaughan Nash and ISA Director-General John Belford were waiting with nervous, unsmiling faces.

Vaughan came back to town together on the evening of the 19th, and there would seem to be no doubt at all that Boyes was then in the best of health.

Sissy runs her re d polished nails teasing through his woolly hair murmuring Here's the one, here's ma man in the cadence of a popular song and say they're dressed in their best clothes, Sissy in her electric bright turquoise taffeta dress, spike heeled shoes with the skinny straps, wide soft crimson lips made up for her cousin Mimi's wedding, and Jinx is in his good suit too, his only suit, fawn colored, skinny lapels, tight fitting in the shoulders but still looking good, so he's smiling and frowning at his face in the mirror thinking things aren't so bad, there's Sissy crazy for him, he's got his sons Frankie and Dwight, and Sissy's little boy Vaughan looking up to him.

Buddy Parkins didn't believe that there was any woman named Helen Vaughan in Buckeye Lake, and he wasn't so sure this mysterious Lewis Farren even had a mother —.

The boy who had claimed to be going to his aunt, Helen Vaughan, in the town of Buckeye Lake.

Vice Admiral Sir Ian Cudleigh is aboard this ship, in direct service to their Imperial Highnesses, the Dukes of Malafont and Greme, who accompany His Royal and Imperial Highness, Vaughan, Duke of Trasimere, surnamed The Terrible, Prince Contestant to the Throne.

But the only thing that was really important right now was the physical evidence, and she, Professor Mary Vaughan, was at least as competent as any policewoman with a rape kit at collecting that.

Vaughan in Richmond Hill-that's where an article I found about you on the web said you live.

Playfully, Vaughan responded to different types of street furniture and roadside trim.