Linden

• As a Dutch, German and Jewish surname, plural form of Linde.
• As a Dutch and West Flemish surname, from several placenames called Linden or Lienden. Also shortened from Vanderlinden.
• As a Swedish surname, from lind (“lime tree”). Compare Lindeen.
• As an English surname, variant of Lindon.
• As an Irish surname, shortened from McLinden, itself a variant of McClinton.

Linden

1. An English surname from Old English, a variant of Lyndon.
2. A Scottish surname, a variant of Linton.
3. A surname from Dutch, a variant of Lynden.
4. A surname from German, a variant of Lindner.
5. A unisex given name transferred from the surname, or for the linden tree.
6. A town in Hesse, Germany.
7. A town in Kaiserslautern district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
8. A town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
9. A town in Westerwaldkreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
10. A village in the Netherlands.
11. A town in Switzerland.
12. A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa; named for founder Johannes van de Linde.
13. A town in Guyana, the second-largest settlement in the country; named for Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, 2nd President of Guyana.
14. A village in New South Wales.
15. A ghost town in Western Australia; named for nearby Mount Linden, itself named for a prospector in the area.
16. A village in Alberta.
17. A community in Nova Scotia.
18. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A city, the county seat of Marengo County, Alabama; named for the Battle of Hohenlinden, in honor the Bonapartist refugees who were Marengo County's first European settlers.
    2. An unincorporated community in Arizona.
    3. A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
    4. An unincorporated community in Idaho; named for the community in Christian County, Missouri.
    5. A town in Indiana.
    6. A city in Iowa.
    7. A city in Michigan.
    8. An unincorporated community in Minnesota.
    9. An unincorporated community in Atchison County, Missouri; named for the linden trees in the area.
    10. An unincorporated community in Christian County, Missouri; named for the town in Tennessee.
    11. A city in Union County, New Jersey; named for linden trees brought to the area from Germany.
    12. A town in North Carolina.
    13. A neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.
    14. A town, the county seat of Perry County, Tennessee; named for "Hohenlinden", a poem by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell.
    15. A city, the county seat of Cass County, Texas.
    16. An unincorporated community in Virginia.
    17. An unincorporated community in Wise County, West Virginia.
    18. An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia; named for Confederate officer Charles Linden Broadus.
    19. A town and village in Wisconsin.

• Lake Linden

• dinnle, linned

• Liende (dialect form)

First attested as lynen in 1400. Etymology uncertain. Potentially derived from the dative plural form of linde (“linden, Tilia sp.”) or from a hydronym. Compare Lienden, Lijnden, Linne and Linschoten.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪn.də(n)/

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• Hyphenation: Lin‧den
• Rhymes: -ɪndən
• Homophone: linden

Linden n

1. A village and former municipality of Land van Cuijk, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

• Lindenaar
• Lindens

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

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Linden

1. plural of Linde

Linden n (proper noun, genitive Lindens or (optionally with an article) Linden)

1. A town in Gießen district, Hesse, Germany
2. A municipality of Kaiserslautern district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
3. A municipality of Dithmarschen district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
4. A municipality of Westerwaldkreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany