Usually means: Scottish surname, often a given name.
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  1. Duncan: Merriam-Webster
  2. Duncan: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Duncan: Vocabulary.com
  4. Duncan, duncan: Wordnik
  5. Duncan: Wiktionary
  6. Duncan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Duncan: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. duncan: Dictionary.com
  9. Duncan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Duncan (Paul Simon song), Duncan (Slim Dusty song), Duncan (given name), Duncan (locomotive), Duncan (mango), Duncan (surname), Duncan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Duncan: Rhymezone
  12. Duncan: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  13. duncan: FreeDictionary.org
  14. duncan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Duncan: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. duncan: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Duncan: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Agate Lexicon (No longer online)

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  1. The Duncan: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Duncan)

noun:  A male given name from Scottish Gaelic anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Donnchadh; the name of two early saints and of two kings of Scotland.
noun:  A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
noun:  A surname from Irish, a variant of Dinkin.
noun:  An Irish surname, a variant of Donegan.
noun:  An Irish surname, a variant of Dunican.
noun:  An Irish surname, adopted as an anglicization of Ó Donnchadha (whence Donoghue).
noun:  A locality in South Australia, Australia; named for politician John Duncan.
noun:  A city in British Columbia, Canada; named for early settler William Chalmers Duncan.
noun:  A locale in the United States.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Stephens County, Oklahoma; named for early settler William Duncan.
noun:  A town in South Carolina; named for landowner Leroy Duncan.
noun:  A town in Arizona; named for copper businessman Duncan Smith.
noun:  A town in Mississippi.
noun:  A village in Nebraska; named for early resident Wood B. Duncan.
noun:  A census-designated place in Iowa.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Indiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Kentucky.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Missouri.
noun:  An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
noun:  Four townships, in Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Pennsylvania, listed under Duncan Township.
noun:  A river in British Columbia, Canada; running 206 km near Mount Dawson into the Kootenay Lake; named for prospector John Duncan.
noun:  A short river in the Southern Alps, New Zealand.

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