Definitions of Cowan:
- name: A surname (common: 1 in 8333 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #1008)
- noun: A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
- noun: (Freemasonry) A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
- noun: (slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
- noun: (in attributive use) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
- noun: (Scotland, obsolete, rare) A fishing-boat.
- noun: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
- noun: A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)
- noun: A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
- noun: A city in Tennessee; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s.
- noun: A town in New South Wales. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
- noun: A town in Manitoba.
- noun: A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
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