Norland

English

Etymology

From Old English norþ (“north”) + land (“land”).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Norland (countable and uncountable, plural Norlands)

1. A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE065225).
2. An unincorporated community in Dickenson County, Virginia, United States.
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Norland is the 37848^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 587 individuals. Norland is most common among White (95.74%) individuals.

Noun

Norland (plural Norlands)

1. (poetic) The land in the north; north country.
2. (Scotland, UK) A Norlander; a person from the north.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Norland”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Norland”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 678.

Anagrams

• Landron