Pennsville

English

Etymology

In New Jersey, from Penn +‎ -s- +‎ -ville, after William Penn.

Proper noun

Pennsville

  1. A township and census-designated place therein, in Salem County, New Jersey.
    • 2007 April 4, Nate Schweber, “Man Queried in Killings of Prostitutes”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 5 June 2015:
      The sister, Mary Oleson, 45, said that her brother was questioned by police officers in a hotel in Pennsville, N.J., on Monday and again on Tuesday.
  2. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Ohio, named after Penn Township.

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