Proper noun
A surname from French.
A town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
A male given name transferred from the surname
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Adams County, Colorado, named after the DuPont company.
A town in Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, named after the Du Pont family.
An unincorporated community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, named, for want of a name, after a box of Dupont shotgun shells.
A village in Putnam County, Ohio, named after Samuel Francis Du Pont.
A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, named after the Dupont Explosives company.
A rural community within Seymour, Sevier County, Tennessee, said to be derived from dew point.
DuPont
Alternative spelling of Dupont.
In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army. Rob Walton
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities. Maurice Strong
So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different. Jackie Cooper
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Michael Specter
After DuPont lost out to Roche on that sale, the company unsuccessfully disputed Mullis's patent on the alleged grounds that PCR had been previously described in 1971. Source: Internet
Already in 1767 the book had disappeared from circulation, and no copy of it is now procurable; but, the substance of it has been preserved in the Ami des hommes of Mirabeau, and the Physiocratie of Dupont de Nemours. Source: Internet