Roswell.
A surname.
Meaning & usage
A surname.
A place in the United States: A city in Fulton County, Georgia.
A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Canyon County, Idaho.
A place in the United States: A city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials.
A place in the United States: A city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials. The most significant ufological event of a region.
A place in the United States: A village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
A place in the United States: A census-designated place in Miner County, South Dakota.
Where this word comes from
Metathesized from Middle English Roweshill, from a contraction of either the Old English personal name Hrōþwulf or its Norman cognate Rolf, Rouf, Rou (in the genitive case, adding -es) + Old English hyll (“hill”).
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