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Definition of Prescott
1. Noun. A town in central Arizona.
Definition of Prescott
1. Proper noun. An English habitational surname from any of several places in England. ¹
2. Proper noun. (surnames male given name) transferred from the surname. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prescott
Literary usage of Prescott
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boston Directory (1862)
"61 Spring prescott Alfred, clerk, 163 FH Market, house at prescott Benj. ...
prescott Bradbury G. surveyor of lumber, house 122 Charlestown [avenue ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren (1918)
"CHAPTER XVIII prescott and Motley I. prescott TO write, his first resolve; to
select a topic, his second— herein lies a cardinal difference between William ..."
3. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1918)
"Not that prescott plunged into his task without preparation. His self-training
was long and minute, but the methods were so exceptional as to be well worth ..."
4. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1885)
"prescott (JB) Jedediah B. prescott, late Pastor of the Christian Church in ...
OS prescott, a Presbyter of the Diocese of Massachusetts, on Charges of ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"501 Isaac, Jacob, Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth, the six children of Isaac Elton:
Sir George William prescott, Thomas, and Mary, prescott, the children of ..."
6. Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot by George Byron Merrick (1909)
"The necessary preparation for the trip down river was made at prescott. ...
prescott was also a transfer point for freight consigned to Afton, Lakeland, ..."
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