Wellington

  1. Proper noun.  Any of several places in Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Somerset.
  2. Proper noun.  The capital of New Zealand.
  3. Proper noun.  (politics, New Zealand) by extension, the Government of New Zealand.
  4. Proper noun.  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British soldier and statesman.
  5. Proper noun.  (surname, habitational) from the places in England.
  6. Noun.  (military, fashion) A Wellington boot.
  7. Noun.  Meat baked in a puff pastry.
  8. Noun.  (alternative spelling of, Wellington) (the boot).

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