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Montgomery

proper noun

  1. family name
  2. place name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /məntˈɡʌm(ə)ɹi/

name

Etymology: From a Norman surname, from a place in Normandy (Old French for "Gomeric's hill"). Gumaric was a Germanic personal name composed of *gumô (“man”) and *rīks (“ruler”) (whence the modern French surnames Gomery, Gommery and Gumery or the Galician placename Gomariz).

  1. A surname from Old French.
  2. Bernard Montgomery (Monty), a British army officer.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
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    So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”

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  23. A neighbourhood in north-west Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
  24. A town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales, formerly the county town of Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SO2296).
  25. A locality in the Shire of Wellington, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
  26. Former name of Sahiwal, a city in Punjab, Pakistan.