Armstrong

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, arm +‎ strong. The rural municipality in Manitoba is named after politician James William Armstrong (1860 - 1928).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːmˌstɹɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹmˌstɹɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹmˌstɹɑŋ/

Proper noun

Armstrong

1. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for someone with strong arms.
   • 2025 May 26, Michelle Goldberg, quoting Jesse Armstrong, “From the Creator of ‘Succession,’ a Delicious Satire of the Tech Right”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 May 2025:

     With events cascading so quickly that last year often feels like another era, Armstrong wanted to create what he called, when I spoke to him last week, “a feeling of nowness.”

2. A city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
3. A small town in the Rural City of Ararat, Victoria, Australia.
4. A number of places in Canada:
   1. A city in the Regional District of North Okanagan, British Columbia.
   2. A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
   3. A township in Timiskaming District, Ontario.
   4. A rural community and First Nation settlement in Thunder Bay District, Ontario.
5. A number of places in the United States:
   1. Synonym of Termo, California.
   2. An unincorporated community in St. Johns County, Florida.
   3. An extinct town in Wilkes County, Georgia.
   4. An unincorporated community in Vermilion County, Illinois.
   5. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
   6. A minor city in Emmet County, Iowa.
   7. An unincorporated community in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
   8. A minor city in Howard County, Missouri.
   9. A town in Bryan County, Oklahoma.
   10. A township in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
   11. A township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
   12. An unincorporated community in Kenedy County, Texas.
   13. An unincorporated community in Osceola, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.

Derived terms

• Armstrong County
• Armstrong Creek
• Armstrong limit
• Armstrong line
• Armstrong number
• Armstrong oscillator
• Armstrong's axioms
• Bowen-Armstrong syndrome
• Captain Armstrong
• King-Armstrong unit

Noun

Armstrong (plural Armstrongs)

1. Ellipsis of Armstrong gun.
   • 2010, Peter G. Tsouras, A Rainbow of Blood: The Union in Peril:

     There would be a special commendation for the Royal Artillery, who were handling their Armstrongs with great precision and a speed Wolseley had never seen before in muzzle-loading guns.

Anagrams

• strong-arm, strongarm

Scots

Etymology

From Middle Scots Armestrang.

Proper noun

Armstrong

1. a Scottish surname from Scots, originally a nickname for someone with strong arms; primarily referring to members of the Armstrong clan in the West and Middle Marches of the Anglo-Scottish Borders country, or their descendants