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Polk

The English word “Polk” has 4 meanings listed here.

proper noun

  1. An unincorporated community in Will County, Illinois.
  2. An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri, named after the county.
  3. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
  4. A number of townships, listed under Polk Township.

Etymology

* As a Scottish surname, shortened from Pollock. * As a Upper Sorbian surname Półk, Pólk, probably shortened from a personal name based on Proto-Slavic *plъkъ (“army, crowd”), see Polka. * As an East German surname of Slavic origin, variant of Polke, itself from a Silesian form of Polish Bolesław.

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