Malden

Malden

1. A number of places in the United States.
   1. A village in Bureau County, Illinois.
   2. An unincorporated community in Morgan Township, Porter County, Indiana.
   3. A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
      • 2025 January 22, Nick Stoico, “Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns”, in Boston Globe‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 January 2025:

        Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health.

   4. A city in Dunklin County, Missouri.
   5. A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Saugerties, Ulster County, New York.
   6. A town in Whitman County, Washington.
   7. An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
2. A village in Heumen, the Netherlands.
3. A surname.

• New Malden

• Delman, Mladen, Mandel

First attested as de maldene in 1247. Probably derived from Proto-Germanic *maþla- (“gathering, gathering place”) with metathesis. Compare Old Saxon mathal (“popular gathering, moot”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 (maþl, “marketplace, market”) and Old High German mahal (“popular gathering, moot”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑl.də(n)/
• Hyphenation: Mal‧den
• Rhymes: -ɑldən
• Homophone: malden

Malden n

1. a village in Heumen, Gelderland, Netherlands

   Synonym: Dwarsliggersrijk (Carnival nickname)

• Maldenaar
• Maldens

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN