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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Kendal green, Kendalnoun

    a green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant

Wiktionary

  1. Kendalnoun

    A town in the Lake District.

  2. Kendalnoun

    of modern usage.

  3. Kendalnoun

    A town in the Lake District of England.

  4. Kendalnoun

    A habitational surname, also as a variant of Kendall.

  5. Kendalnoun

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

  6. Kendalnoun

    A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

  7. Etymology: Old English Cent + dæl = "valley of the river Kent".

Wikipedia

  1. Kendal

    Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Windermere and 19 miles (31 km) north of Lancaster. Historically in Westmorland, it is destined to be the adminstrative centre of the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority from 1 April 2023. It lies within the dale of the River Kent, from which its name is derived. At the 2011 Census, the town had a population of 28,586, making it the third largest town in Cumbria after Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. It is renowned today mainly as a centre for shopping, for its festivals and historic sights, including Kendal Castle, and as the home of Kendal Mint Cake. The town's grey limestone buildings have earned it the sobriquet "Auld Grey Town".

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  1. kendal

    Kendal is a town located in Cumbria, in the North West of England. It's known for its production of Kendal Mint Cake, a glucose-based confectionery traditionally used by climbers and mountaineers as an energy snack. The town is also famous for its "yards", which are similar to alleyways at the back of old house clusters. The term "Kendal" can also be a given name or surname.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Kendal

    a cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England

Wikidata

  1. Kendal

    Kendal, anciently known as Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish within the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England. It is 50 miles south of Carlisle, on the River Kent, and has a total resident population of 27,505, making it the third largest settlement in Cumbria, behind Carlisle and Barrow in Furness. Historically a part of Westmorland, Kendal today is known largely as a centre for tourism, as the home of Kendal mint cake, and as a producer of pipe tobacco and tobacco snuff. Its buildings, mostly constructed with the local grey limestone, have earned it the nickname the Auld Grey Town.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Kendal

    a Westmorland market-town on the Kent, 38 m. S. of Carlisle; manufactures heavy woollen goods, paper, and snuff; it owes the introduction of its woollen manufacture to the settlement in it of Flemings in the reign of Richard III.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Kendal

    Expresses the dale of the River Ken.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. KENDAL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Kendal is ranked #62714 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Kendal surname appeared 319 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Kendal.

    70.2% or 224 total occurrences were White.
    23.8% or 76 total occurrences were Black.
    2.8% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.1% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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  1. ankled

  2. lanked

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of kendal in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of kendal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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