Inverness
Proper noun
  1. A city in and the administrative centre of Highland.
  2. A rural locality in Shire of Livingstone, Queensland.
  3. A rural community in Inverness County, Nova Scotia.
  4. A municipality in Centre-du-Québec, Quebec.
  5. A community/suburb in Stockholm, Sweden.
  6. An unincorporated community in Bullock County, Alabama.
  7. A former CDP/and/neighborhood in Hoover, Shelby County.
  8. An unincorporated community/and/CDP in Marin County, California.
  9. CDP in Arapahoe County, Colorado.
  10. A city/county seat in Citrus County, Florida.
  11. A suburban village in Cook County, Illinois.
  12. An unincorporated community in Steuben County, Indiana.
  13. A town in Sunflower County, Mississippi.
  14. CDP in Hill County, Montana.
Translations
  • French: Inverness
  • German: Inverness
  • Italian: Inverness
  • Portuguese: Inverness
  • Russian: Инвернесс
  • Spanish: Inverness
Noun

Inverness (plural Invernesses)

  1. A type of overcoat constructed without sleeves and having a shoulder cape extending to the wrists. The best examples are quite heavy, made from Harris tweed; often associated with Sherlock Holmes.
  2. A variation of this coat, the "coachman's cape": the shoulder cape does not extend around the back but is made of two segments, the length of each being sewn into the seam of the coat on either side.



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