Definition of Cunningham

1. Noun. United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1922).


Definition of Cunningham

1. Proper noun. A Scottish habitational surname from a place in Ayrshire. ¹

2. Noun. (nautical) A downhaul located at the tack of a sail used for tightening the luff. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cunningham

Cumbria
Cumbrian
Cumbrians
Cuminum
Cuminum cyminum
Cummer's guideline
Cummingsesque
Cumulative Index Medicus
Cuna
Cunarder
Cunas
Cunaxa
Cuneo
Cuniculus paca
Cunningham
Cunninghamella elegans
Cunoniaceae
Cuon
Cuon alpinus
Cupertino effect
Cupid
Cupid's bow
Cupid's bows
Cupid's disease
Cupid's itch
Cupidinian
Cupidlike
Cupressaceae
Cupressus

Literary usage of Cunningham

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"One of the creditors of WH cunningham, and a party to this agreement, was WW Strom, ... cunningham would convey to Strom the real estate described, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1873)
"cunningham. The Centennial Birthday of Robert Burns, as Celebrated by the ... 17965 cunningham (L.) The Case of the Whigs who Loaned their Money on the ..."

3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1907)
"cunningham.—In the REGISTER, Vol. 55 (1901), I published a brief genealogy of " Andrew cunningham of Boston and some of his Descendants," from which ..."

4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Am Pol Sei R 11:421-47 As cunningham, EM Rapid method of gas standardization. School Sei and Math 17:524-5 Je 47 cunningham, Frederic Is every county court ..."

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