Definition of "Bangor"

A city and community with a city council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5872).

1. The associated University; clipping of Bangor University.  examples

A city, formerly a town, in County Down, Northern Ireland.  examples

Any of several other places named after the cities in Wales or Northern Ireland.

1. A number of places in the United States:

   1. An unincorporated community in Blount County, Alabama.  examples

   2. A census-designated place in Butte County, California.  examples

   3. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Iowa.  examples

   4. A city, the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine.  quotations  examples

      Quotations

      • ‘Where are you from?’ Lionel asked, and then, because the question seemd too personal […] he said, ‘Not that you have to tell me.’‘Bangor,’ Charles said. ‘Maine.’‘What’s it like there?’‘Cold. Wet. Empty,’ he said. ‘It’s kind of a bleak place.’

        2021, Brandon Taylor, “Meat”, in Filthy Animals, Daunt Books Originals, page 243

   5. A township and city therein, in Van Buren County, Michigan.  examples

   6. A township in Bay County, Michigan  examples

   7. A town in Franklin County, New York.  examples

   8. A borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.  examples

   9. A town in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.  examples

   10. A village in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, partially within the town above.  examples

   11. Other townships in Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota.  examples

2. A community in Clare, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada.  examples

3. A village in the Rural Municipality of Fertile Belt No. 183, Saskatchewan, Canada.  examples

4. A suburb of Sydney, in Sutherland Shire, New South Wales, Australia.  examples

5. A rural locality in the Launceston region of Tasmania, Australia.  examples

A commune on Belle-Île, Morbihan department, Brittany, France.  examples