Monroe
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Etymology
From Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”) + Roe, a river in Northern Ireland, meaning "man from the River Roe".
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /mənˈɹoʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
Monroe
- A Scottish topographic surname from Scottish Gaelic from Gaelic words meaning "foot of a hill"
- A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- A townland in County Meath, Ireland.
- Any of a number of places in the United States, including:
- The former name of an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, now Hales Grove.
- A town in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
- A city, the county seat of Walton County, Georgia.
- A small town in Adams County, Indiana.
- A small unincorporated community in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
- A small city in Jasper County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Hart County, Kentucky.
- A sizable city, the parish seat of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.
- A town in Waldo County, Maine.
- A small town in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
- A city, the county seat of Monroe County, Michigan
- A village in Platte County, Nebraska.
- A small town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
- A sizable town and village in Orange County, New York.
- A city, the county seat of Union County, North Carolina.
- 2005, Jesse Helms, “Introduction”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xv:
- I was born and raised in Monroe, the seat of Union County, North Carolina. That makes me, as an indulgent friend once put it, a “country boy.”
- A city in Warren County and Butler County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Ohio.
- A small unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma.
- A small city in Benton County, Oregon.
- A borough of Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
- A small town in Turner County, South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Overton County, Tennessee.
- A small city in Sevier County, Utah.
- An unincorporated community in Amherst County, Virginia.
- A city in Snohomish County, Washington.
- A small town in Adams County, Wisconsin.
- A town and city, the county seat of Green County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Monroe Township.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
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