Meaning

11 senses
  1. A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].

  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

  3. A town and district in the General Alvear Department, Mendoza, Argentina.

  4. A coastal town and locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.

    Bowen

  5. A number of places in the United States:

    An extinct town in Las Animas County, Colorado.

  6. An unincorporated community in Rio Grande County, Colorado.

  7. A village in Hancock County, Illinois.

  8. An unincorporated community in Henry County and Johnson County, Missouri.

  9. A ghost town in Washington County, Nebraska.

  10. An unincorporated community in Wayne County, West Virginia.

  11. (historical)A Chinese character-derived script formerly used to write the Bai languages.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. “One of the things that we could be pushing a lot harder is paleo tourism,” Bowen said.

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
coastal Australian town:

Origin

From Welsh ap Owain (“son of Owen”). Borrowed from Chinese 僰文 (bówén).

From Welsh ap Owain (“son of Owen”).

Borrowed from Chinese 僰文 (bówén).

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Word family

1 related words
Derivedbowenite

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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