queenstown
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
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A town in West Coast council area, Tasmania, Australia.
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A hamlet in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
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A resort town in Otago, New Zealand, situated on Lake Wakatipu, named after Queenstown in Ireland (now Cobh).
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A neighbourhood of Singapore.
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A town and city in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
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Example Sentences
- "His name came not from his looks, but from his childhood growing up in Queenstown—a remote copper mining town on the Tasmanian west coast, a land made in equal parts of rainforest and myth—where for a time his family had been so poor that they had only been able to afford sheepheads for food."
Etymology
From queen's + town, after various monarchs and consorts of the British Empire. Doublet of Quainton and Queenston. Cf. Queensville, Kingstown, Kingston, Kingstone, Coniston, Princetown, Princes Town, and Princeton. Cobh was one of many places in Ireland that changed their names in the 1920s following the Irish Revolution.