English

Proper noun

Douglas

1. A Scottish surname​.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. The capital of the Isle of Man.
4. A town in Alabama
5. A city in Arizona
6. A city in Georgia, USA
7. A town in Massachusetts
8. A city in Michigan
9. A village and a county in Nebraska
10. A community in New Brunswick, Canada
11. A city in North Dakota
12. A town in Oklahoma
13. A village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland
14. A town in Northern Cape, South Africa
15. A town in Wisconsin
16. A city in Wyoming

Related terms

• (given name): Doug, Dougie, Douglass

Quotations

• 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1: Act IV, Scene V:

  The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw

  The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him

  The noble Percy slain, and all his men

  Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest.

• 1756 John Home, Douglas: A Tragedy, Prologue

  Douglas, a name through all the world renown'd,

  A name that rouses like the trumpet's sound!

• 1960 Muriel Spark, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, New Directions Publishing, 1999, page 68-69

  'Just call me Dougal,' said Dougal.

  'Douglas,' she said, pronouncing it 'Dooglass'.

  'No, Dougal - Douglas is my surname.'

  'Oh, Dougal Douglas. Dougal's the first name.'

Translations

French

Proper noun

Douglas

1. Douglas (in the Isle of Man)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Douglas m

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Douglas

Proper noun

Douglas f

1. Douglas (a city, the capital of the Isle of Man, United Kingdom)

English

Noun

douglas

1. plural of dougla