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Houston
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English
<dab!>
Alternative forms
surname en Hoston Houstoun Hughesdon
Etymology
Originally from a place near Glasgow, from the en enm - equivalent of "Hugh's town". Analyzable as en Hugh -s- -ton
Pronunciation
en /ˈh(j)uːst(ə)n/ RP
en /ˈhjustən/ [ˈhj̊uːstɨn] [j̊uːstɨn] GA
en En-us-Houston.ogg GA
county in Georgia street in Manhattan sometimes the surname en /ˈhaʊstən/
en uːstən 2
en Hous ton
Proper noun
~
en habitational.
en male surnames mainly American.
A placename:
en Q16555 en large city/county seat co/Harris County s/Texas c/USA, named after Sam Houston. TopoZone: Houston, Texas
en Space City official nickname
en 2020 Bryan Washington Memorial Atlantic Books (2021) 254 Spring in Houston is scalding sidewalks and sun-drunk lovebugs. It’s dead grass and midday thunderstorms. It isn’t the beginning or the end of anything, just a prolonged in-between through dead-end traffic on I-45.
en Dalia Faheid, Paradise Afshar, Caitlin Kaiser, Joe Sutton, Mary Gilbert and Taylor Ward At least 7 dead after hurricane-force winds pound Houston as power outages persist amid rising temperatures w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/weather/flooding-south-storms-houston-friday 2024-05-17 At least seven people were killed in the Houston area on Thursday as a destructive complex of storms with winds up to 100 mph tore through the area, triggering power outages that could stretch on for weeks amid soaring temperatures. https://web.archive.org/web/20240713082201/https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/weather/flooding-south-storms-houston-friday/
en Nicole Acevedo U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer removed to Mexico with undocumented parents w:NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-child-recovering-brain-cancer-deported-mexico-undocumented-rcna196049 2025-03-12 The family’s ordeal began last month, when they were rushing from Rio Grande City, where they lived, to Houston, where their daughter’s specialist doctors are based, for an emergency medical checkup. https://web.archive.org/web/20250430044404/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-child-recovering-brain-cancer-deported-mexico-undocumented-rcna196049
en village carea/Renfrewshire cc/Scotland.
en town in the val/Bulkley Valley p/British Columbia c/Canada.
Other places in the United States:
en ucomm co/Winston County s/Alabama.
en city bor/Matanuska-Susitna Borough s/Alaska.
en small town co/Perry County s/Arkansas.
en small town co/Kent County s/Delaware.
en ucomm co/Suwannee County s/Florida.
en ucomm co/Heard County s/Georgia.
en twp co/Adams County s/Illinois.
en ucomm twp:Suf/Salt Creek co/Jackson County s/Indiana.
en small city/and/twp co/Houston County s/Minnesota.
en A small <<city>> in and one of the two <<county seats>> of <<co/Chickasaw County>>, <<s/Mississippi>>.
en small city/county seat co/Texas County s/Missouri.
en ucomm co/York County s/Nebraska.
en ucomm co/Union County s/North Carolina.
en ucomm twp:Suf/Loramie co/Shelby County s/Ohio.
en bor in co/Washington County s/Pennsylvania.
en ucomm co/Wayne County s/Tennessee.
en Houston County.
en metonym US space program The Johnson Space Center, the en NASA Mission Control complex located in Houston, Texas.
en Colin Latham, Ann Stobbs Radar: A Wartime Miracle Stroud Sutton 1996 98 [A]ircraft were carefully guided to a precise point in the sky up to 300 miles away by a dedicated ground-based team[.] Houston’s control of the Apollo moon missions was on a vastly greater scale, but parallels are not hard to see.
en Houston, we've had a problem here.
Derived terms
en Houston County Houston, we have a problem Houstoner Houstonian
Translations
Texan city
Bulgarian: bg Хю́стън m
Burmese: my ဟူစတန်
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 休斯敦 Xiūsīdūn, cmn 休士頓 Xiūshìdùn Taiwan
French: fr Houston m
Galician: gl Houston m
Georgian: ka ჰიუსტონი
German: de Houston
Greek: el Χιούστον
Hungarian: hu Houston
Japanese: ja ヒューストン Hyūsuton
Korean: ko ^휴스턴
Latin: la Hustonia f
Marathi: mr ह्यूस्टन
Portuguese: pt Houston f
Russian: ru Хью́стон
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Хјустон
Latin: sh Houston Croatian, sh Hjuston Serbian
Spanish: es Houston
Turkish: tr Houston
See also
en Hoston Huston
References
Anagrams
en hnoostu Southon unshoot
French
fr:
Etymology
From fr en Houston.
Pronunciation
fr /jus.tɔn/
Proper noun
f
Houston (a place in the Anglophone countries).
Derived terms
fr Houstonien m, fr Houstonienne f
fr Houston, nous avons un problème
German
Etymology
de :bor en:Houston
de en Houston.
Pronunciation
de /ˈjuːstən/ [ˈjuːstn̩]
de /ˈçuːstən/ less common
de De-Houston.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
toponym
de Houston Q16555
Derived terms
de Houston, wir haben ein Problem
Portuguese
pt:
Etymology
pt :ubor en:Houston + 1
Pronunciation
ríuston
Proper noun
f
pt Houston Q16555
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es :ubor en:Houston + 1
Pronunciation
Jiustón +
Proper noun
f
Houston (a place in the Anglophone countries).