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Ford(countableanduncountable,pluralFords)

  1. Atopographicsurnamefrom Middle Englishfor someone who lived near aford.
  2. Aplacename:
    1. A number of places in theUnited Kingdom:
      1. A number of places inEngland:
        1. AhamletinDinton with Ford and Uptonparish,Buckinghamshire(OSgrid ref SP7709).
        2. AhamletinEckingtonparish,North East Derbyshiredistrict,Derbyshire(OS grid ref SK4080).
        3. AsuburbofPlymouth,Devon(OS grid ref SX4656).
        4. AhamletinHolbetonparish,South Hamsdistrict,Devon(OS grid ref SX6150).
        5. AhamletinTemple Guitingparish,Cotswolddistrict,Gloucestershire(OS grid ref SP0829).
        6. AhamletinFord and Stoke Priorparish, south ofLeominster,Herefordshire(OS grid ref SO5155)[1]
        7. Asuburbanarea in the Metropolitan Borough ofSefton,Merseyside(OS grid ref SJ3398).
        8. A small village andcivil parishin northernNorthumberland(OS grid ref NT9437).[2]
        9. A village andcivil parishwest ofShrewsbury,Shropshire(OS grid ref SJ4113).[3]
        10. A village andcivil parishinArundistrict,West Sussex(OS grid ref TQ0003).[4]
        11. A small village inNorth Wraxallparish,Wiltshire(OS grid ref ST8375).
        12. A village inLaverstockparish, nearSalisbury,Wiltshire(OS grid ref SU1533).
      2. A small village at the south-west end ofLoch Awe,Argyll and Butecouncil area,Scotland(OS grid ref NN8603).
      3. Ahamletnext toWolf's Castle,Pembrokeshire,Wales(OS grid ref SM9526).[5]
    2. A number of places in theUSA:
      1. An extinct town inBartow County,Georgia.
      2. A small city inFord County,Kansas.
      3. AnunincorporatedcommunityinClark County,Kentucky.
      4. AnunincorporatedcommunityinDinwiddie County,Virginia.
      5. AnunincorporatedcommunityinStevens County,Washington.
      6. A town inTaylor County,Wisconsin.

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Noun

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EnglishWikipediahas an article on:
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Ford(pluralFords)

  1. Amakeofcar,named forHenry Ford.
    • 1918,Willa Cather,My Antonia:
      They have aFordcar now, and she don't seem so far away from me as she used to.
    • 1922,Henry Ford,Samuel Crowther,My Life and Work,Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.,→OCLC:
      There were several of us and we had a little caravan — the Lanchester, a Packard, and aFordor two.
    • 1958,John Kenneth Galbraith,The Affluent Society,page 141:
      It is easy to see why the modern car manufacturer does not enjoy the eminence of aFordor an Olds.
    • 1972,“Take It Easy”,performed byEagles:
      It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbedFordslowin' down to take a look at me
    • 1995,Stella Gibbons,Cold Comfort Farm,page90:
      Why don't you go round the country with aFordvan, preaching on market days?
    • 2000,Catherine Ryan Hyde,Pay It Forward,page24:
      Unless, of course, he limped away, not sauntered off, maybe dragged himself to a hospital, maybe got out okay, maybe died, far from anything to tie him to aFordextra cab, far from any ties to hometown news.
    • 2001,Bernard Goldberg,Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes how the Media Distort the News,page174:
      And they can also live in a bigger house and drive something a little fancier than a Chevy or aFord.
    • 2003,Lois Lowry,The Silent Boy,page140:
      But if he had aFordautomobile, he could simply telephone the garage, and--
      ...
      We didn't need aFordmotorcar.
    • 1989,Elmore Leonard,Killshot:
      Elmore Leonard is as dependable as aFordused to be and as knowing as a New York fashion designer.
    • 2004,Robert McCrum,Wodehouse: A Life,page154:
      When she spotted her stepfather coming towards her she had pulled over and Wodehouse crossed over to greet her, noticing too late that she was being followed by aFord,which swerved to avoid the Buick.
    • 2004,Keith Bradsher,High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV,page304:
      AForddealer in Saudi Arabia repeatedly warned the automaker the same year that Firestone tires were failing on Explorers.
      ...
      AFordmemo in March 1999 said that Firestone's legal staff did not want to to replace tires in Saudi Arabia for fear that doing so would require Firestone to notify NHTSA, and added that aFordlawyer had worries "similar to the Firestone concerns."
    • 2005,William Braxton Irvine,On Desire: Why We Want What We Want,page26:
      He is disturbed not by the crass materialism of his life but by the fact that he is still driving aFordwhen he could and should be driving a Porsche.
    • 2006,Hester Browne,The Little Lady Agency,page59:
      I remembered too late that Honey should probably drive a cute little Mini or aFordFiesta or some such. Damn.
  2. (humorous,derogatory)Initialism offoundontheroaddead(“a satirical pun on the Ford brand”).

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  • According to the 2010 United States Census,Fordis the 137thmost common surname in the United States, belonging to 184,832 individuals.Fordis most common among White (62.05%) and Black (32.00%) individuals.

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  1. ^OS: Herefordshire
  2. ^Parish map (Northumberland)
  3. ^Parish map (Shropshire)
  4. ^Parish Map (West Sussex)
  5. ^OS: Pembrokeshire

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BorrowedfromEnglishFord.

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Fordmanim(relational adjectiveFordův)

  1. A surname in English,Fordm

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BorrowedfromEnglishFord.

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Fordmorfby sense

  1. an Englishsurname
  2. an American motorcar manufacturer

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Fordf(pluralFords)

  1. aFordautomobile
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