Carleton County
English
Etymology
The county is named after the first lieutenant governor of New Brunswick, Thomas Carleton (c. 1735 - 1817).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑɹl.tən ˈkaʊn.ti/
- Hyphenation: Carle‧ton Coun‧ty
- Rhymes: -aʊnti
Proper noun
- A county of New Brunswick, Canada. [From 1832]
- A former county in Ontario, Canada, superseded in 1969 by the Regional Municipality of Ottawa–Carleton, which was superseded by the City of Ottawa in 2001.
Descendants
- → French: Comté de Carleton (calque)
Categories:
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/aʊnti
- Rhymes:English/aʊnti/4 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English multiword terms
- en:Counties of New Brunswick, Canada
- en:Places in New Brunswick, Canada
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Former political divisions
- en:Places in Ontario, Canada
- English eponyms