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Rush

The English word “Rush” has 3 meanings listed here.

proper noun

  1. An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
  2. An unincorporated community in Boyd County and Carter County, Kentucky, United States.
  3. A number of townships, in Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania, United States, listed under Rush Township.

Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun rush (“waterside plant, plant in marshes”). * Also as an English surname, from the archaic noun rush (“beehive”), from French ruche. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Ruis (literally “descendant of Ros”), a name from ros (“wood”). Sometimes also translated from Ó Luachra due to confusion with luachair (“rushes”), see Loughrey. * Also as an Irish surname,…

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