Dearborn
See also: dearborn
English
Etymology
From Middle English Daborne, Dabernoun, from Old Northern French d'Arborn (literally “of Arbornon”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɪəbɔːn/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈdɪɹboɹn/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈdɪəboːn/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈdiəboːn/
Proper noun
Dearborn (countable and uncountable, plural Dearborns)
- A surname.
- A city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States.
- 2025 October 8, Stephen Starr, “‘I don’t feel safe any more’: Dearborn’s Arab Americans on rising Islamophobia”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 8 October 2025:
- The Yemeni American, who had been living in the Dearborn and Detroit area for four years, was preparing dinner while her mother took Amirah’s seven-year-old daughter, Saida, to a nearby playground to play with her friends.
- A city in Buchanan County and Platte County, Missouri, United States.
- Dearborn County.
Derived terms
Noun
Dearborn (plural Dearborns)
- Alternative letter-case form of dearborn.