Cumberland

[kuhm-ber-luhnd]

noun

1. a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria.

2. a town in N Rhode Island.

3. a city in NW Maryland, on the Potomac River.

4. a river flowing W from SE Kentucky through N Tennessee into the Ohio River. 687 miles (1,106 km) long.

Cumberland

¹

/ ˈkʌmbələnd /

noun

1. Richard. 1631–1718, English theologian and moral philosopher; bishop of Peterborough (1691–1718)

2. William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, known as Butcher Cumberland. 1721–65, English soldier, younger son of George II, noted for his defeat of Charles Edward Stuart at Culloden (1746) and his subsequent ruthless destruction of Jacobite rebels

Cumberland

²

/ ˈkʌmbələnd /

noun

1. (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria

Example Sentences

Graham Wright, 38, was last seen on Cumberland Street, in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, on 20 August.

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He was last seen on Wednesday 20 August on Cumberland Street in the Gorbals.

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He was last seen at about 12:00 on Wednesday 20 August on Cumberland Street in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.

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Each ring typically indicated one year of growth suggesting the tree was at least 100 to 120 years old, he added, with the section having been examined at Fort Cumberland Laboratories in Portsmouth.

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The local government and social care ombudsman upheld a complaint from the mother of a child with special educational needs after Cumberland Council failed to review these.

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