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Leland

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Meaning

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A surname from Irish.

An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Washington.

A minor city in Winnebago County, Iowa.

A number of places in the United States:
A village in LaSalle County, Illinois.

A township and unincorporated community and census-designated place therein, in Leelanau County, Michigan.

A city in Washington County, Mississippi.

A town in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

An unincorporated community in Honey Creek, Sauk County, Wisconsin.

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Leland Weston: "Never take a position unless you are certain it can be defended any onslaught. That may sound like good advice to a general, but then, a courtroom is nothing more then a very civilized war." Michael Crichton

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot. Little Milton

A more light-hearted look at English as spoken in New Zealand, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, was written by the American-born University of Otago psychology lecturer Louis Leland in 1980. Source: Internet

Construction The Jupiter, which carried Leland Stanford (one of the "Big Four" owners of the Central Pacific) and other railway officials to the Last Spike Ceremony. Source: Internet

Author John Leland describes an etymology, writing that the term is a modern survival of an English verb—"to dozen"—dating back at least to the fourteenth century and meaning "to stun, stupefy, daze" or "to make insensible, torpid, powerless". Source: Internet

Commissioner Philip Marquis made a motion to recommend approval, which carried 4-0 with Commissioner David Leland not present for the vote. Source: Internet

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