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Cum⋅ber⋅land

[kuhm-ber-luhnd]
–noun
1. a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria.
2. a town in N Rhode Island. 27,069.
3. a city in NW Maryland, on the Potomac River. 25,933.
4. a river flowing W from SE Kentucky through N Tennessee into the Ohio River. 687 mi. (1106 km) long.
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Word Origin & History

Cumberland 
O.E. Cumbra land (945) "region of the Cymry" (see Cymric).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Cumberland

historic county, extreme northwestern England, bounded on the north by Scotland, on the east by the historic counties of Northumberland and Durham, and on the south by the historic counties of Westmorland and Lancashire. Cumberland is presently part of the administrative county of Cumbria.

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