dawson

1. 1.

   a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike

   Broadertown

   Part ofYukon

Other forms of dawson

plural

dawsons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dawson

What does dawson mean?

dawson means "a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike".

How many syllables are in dawson?

dawson has 2 syllables: daw-son. The stress falls on "daw". In IPA it is /ˈdɔsən/.

Is dawson a common word?

dawson is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.