Huntington n 1: American revolutionary leader who signed the Declaration of Independence and was president of the Continental Congress (1731-1796) [syn: {Samuel Huntington}] 2: United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900) [syn: {Collis Potter Huntington}] 3: a city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha