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Penn

proper noun

  1. family name
  2. American university
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Wiktionary

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, named after various places such as Penn in Buckinghamshire or Staffordshire, of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *penn (“(hill) top, head”). * Also as an English surname, from the noun pen (“enclosure”). * Also as an English surname, spelling variant of Parnell. * As a German surname, from Sorbian pien (“tree stump”), from Proto-Slavic *pьňь.

  1. A surname.
  2. A place in England:

    High on a ridge of the Chilterns stands the village from which a celebrated Buckinghamshire family took its name. It was the home of the ancestors, and some of the descendants, of William Penn, the Quaker who in 1682 founded Pennsylvania in America.

  3. A place in England:
  4. A place in England:
  5. A place in the United States:
  6. A place in the United States:
  7. A place in the United States:
  8. A place in the United States:
  9. University of Pennsylvania

    Well, he [Donald J. Trump] did go to Penn. Whether he got in on merit is a whole other question.