Penn
proper noun
- family name
- American university
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.
- A surname.
- 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.”
- A place in England:
- A place in England:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- University of Pennsylvania
“Well, he [Donald J. Trump] did go to Penn. Whether he got in on merit is a whole other question.”