Vancouver.
A surname.
Meaning & usage
A surname.
A seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada.
A large island of British Columbia, Canada.
A river in southern British Columbia, Canada.
A mountain between Alaska, United States and Yukon, Canada in the Saint Elias Mountains.
A mountain straddling the Canterbury and the West Coast regions in the Southern Alps, on the South Island, New Zealand.
A city, the county seat of Clark County, Washington, United States.
A lake in Clark County, Washington, United States.
The Vancouver system of reference citation.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *h₂póder. Proto-Germanic *fanē Proto-West Germanic *fanā Old Dutch fan Middle Dutch van Dutch van Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws Proto-Germanic *kōz Proto-West Germanic *kō Old Dutch cuo Middle Dutch coe Dutch koe Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *pértus Proto-Germanic *furduz Proto-West Germanic *furdu Old Dutch *furt Middle Dutch vort Dutch voorde Dutch Coevorden Dutch van Coevorden English Vancouver The family name is from the Dutch place name Coevorden (“the place where cows ford the river”) via the Dutch family name van Coevorden (“a person from Coevorden”). The place names are derived from the family name, being named after George Vancouver, an English explorer who charted the northwestern Pacific coast of North America in a 1791–1794 expedition.
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