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Lynn may refer to:

Places

United States

• Lynn, Alabama
• Lynn, Arkansas
• Lynn, California
• Lynn, Indiana
• Lynn, Massachusetts
• Lynn, Pennsylvania
• Lynn, Wisconsin
• Lynn Canal, inlet in Alaska
• Lynn County, Texas

Canada

• Lynn Lake, Manitoba
• Lynn, Nova Scotia
• Lynn River (Ontario)
• Lynn Valley, neighborhood of North Vancouver, British Columbia

United Kingdom

• Lynn in Staffordshire
• Lynn in Shropshire
• King's Lynn, Norfolk
• South Lynn, Norfolk
• West Lynn, Norfolk

New Zealand

• New Lynn, New Zealand

People

• Lynn (surname)
• Lynn (name)

Other uses

• Lynn News, newspaper in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England

See also

• Lyn
• Lynne
• All pages beginning with "Lynn"

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From Wikitravel

Lynn[1] is a city in Massachusetts north of Boston.

• Take the Newburyport/Rockport line [2] on the MBTA [3] Commuter Rail to the "Lynn" station.

• Lynn Heritage State Park, 590 Washington St., 781-598-1974, [4]. Exhibits on shoe making. Nearby Waterfront Park has a boardwalk to stroll.

• Lynn Woods Reservation, Pennybrook Rd., Ranger Phone: 781-477-7123. Sunrise to sunset. The second largest municipal park in the U.S. Biking trails.

• Oceanview Bed and Breakfast, 11 Ocean St., Phone: +1 781-598-6388, Fax: Fax: +1 781-581-3760, [5].

• Diamond District Breakfast Inn, 142 Ocean St., Phone: +1 781-595-2200, [6].

• Red Maple Bed and Breakfast, 210 Broadway, Phone: +1 781-581-3671, Fax: +1 781-593-1320.

Get out

A church in Lynn is First Lutheran Church.

From LoveToKnow 1911

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Alternative spellings

• (female name): Lyn, Lynne

Etymology

From place names in Norfolk and Scotland, Scottish Gaelic linne (“‘stream, pool’”) or from corresponding Old English/Celtic words.

• The female name is used as a fanciful spelling variant of Lyn, shortened from the common -lyn/-line ending of women's names , as in Carolyn, Evelyn, Gwendolyn.

Proper noun

Lynn

1. A habitational surname.
2. Any of several place names ( outside Britain named for persons with the surname).
3. A male given name usually appearing as a middle name.
4. A female given name, popular as a middle name.

Quotations

• 1595 William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3, Act IV, Scene V

  King Edward. But whither shall we then?

  Hastings. To Lynn, my lord; and ship from thence to Flanders.

• 1989 Ann Richards,Peter Knobler, Straight from the Heart: My Life in Politics and Other Places, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671680730, page 91

  David's father's name was Leon, and those people who didn't call him Dick called him Lynn. And I loved my former professor Ralph Lynn, so I named my baby Lynn Cecile.

• 2007 Susan Richards Shreve, Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 061865853X, page 67

  He called me Mary because I had told him my middle name was Mary and I was called by that name at home, although my middle name was Lynn. But neither Susan or Lynn seemed right for a Quaker girl converting to Catholicism.