/ˈkəʊən/
OriginFirst attested in 1598.
- A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
- A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
- slangA sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
- attributiveUninitiated, outside, “profane”.
- Scotland, obsolete, rareA fishing-boat.
- A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
- A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)
- A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
- An outer suburb of Sydney in Hornsby Shire, New South Wales, Australia. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
- A town in western Manitoba, Canada.
- A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
- An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.
- A city in Franklin County, Tennessee; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s.
Formscowans(plural) · cowanis(obsolete, plural) · kowan(alternative) · cowen(alternative) · Cowans(alternative) · Cowin(alternative) · Cowing(alternative)