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

Tennessee Republican Party Chair Scott Golden offered this warning to party faithful last week at the Cumberland County Lincoln Day Dinner in the tiny town of Crab Orchard.

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On a recent rainy day, Dietz drove over the Cumberland River into East Nashville, a neighborhood caught up in the funding cuts.

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The party’s gravitational center sits in Cumberland and York counties: Greater Portland and the southern coastal strip.

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Liz is a celebrity, now working with a mysterious organization called the Cumberland Company.

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The last time a British prince was stripped of their “prince” title was during World War I, when the Duke of Cumberland backed his native Germany during the conflict.

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