Falmouth

English

Etymology

For the Cornish town (sense 1), from Fal +‎ mouth, at the mouth of the River Fal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfæl.məθ/
• Rhymes: -ælməθ
• Hyphenation: Fal‧mouth

Proper noun

Falmouth

2. A town, port, and civil parish with a town council in south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8132).
   • 2026 January 14, Lisa Young, “Council delays decision about weedkiller use”, in BBC‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 January 2026:

     In previous years Penryn Town Council has used Falmouth Town Council to fulfil the parks contract and glyphosate had been used, councillor Debra Clegg confirmed.

3. A village in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
4. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Suwannee County, Florida.
   2. An unincorporated community in Fairview Township, Fayette County and Union Township and Washington Township, Rush County, Indiana.
   3. A city, the county seat of Pendleton County, Kentucky.
   4. A town and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, Maine.
   5. A town and census-designated place therein, in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
      • 2012 December 14, Emanuella Grinberg, Christina Zdanowicz, “Celebrating Chrismukkah: Shalom stockings and Hanukkah bushes”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 10 December 2013:

        Erickson shared images on CNN iReport that show mixed holiday decorations in their Falmouth, Massachusetts, home, from a menorah and advent calendar to stockings bearing the phrase “shalom” and plates decorated with dreidels on a red plaid table cloth.

   6. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Clam Union Township, Missaukee County, Michigan.
   7. A census-designated place in Conoy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
   8. A census-designated place in Stafford County, Virginia.
5. A port town in Saint Paul parish, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda.
6. A town and parish capital in Trelawny parish, Jamaica, named for the town in Cornwall, England.
   • 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 102:

     My son says that this telephone can even allow you to chat with someone in another district—that you may be in Falmouth, yet your talk may be raising the eyebrows of someone in Kingston.

7. A rural community of Break O'Day council area, Tasmania, Australia.

Translations

harbour town in Cornwall, England

• Cornish: Aberfala, Arwednak

town in Jamaica

• Arabic: فالماوث
• Greek: Φάλμουθ (Fálmouth)
• Jamaican Creole: Falmot
• Japanese: ファルマウス (Farumausu)