English Explanatory Dictionary

Abbotsford

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A ford in the Tweed, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, near Melrose Abbey.
  2. A suburb of Sydney in the Canada Bay council area, New South Wales, Australia.
  3. A hamlet in Burgess Hill parish, Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3020).
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  1. A city and large municipality in Fraser Valley Regional District, Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada, in the Fraser Lowland. See Abbotsford, British Columbia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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  1. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  2. A suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
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  1. A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, named for an Australian farm named for the ford.
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  1. A suburb, part of Green Island, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, named for surveyor Edmund Abbot.
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  1. A city in Wisconsin, United States, named for Wisconsin Central railroad executive Edwin Hale Abbott.

Word forms

Abbotsford

Etymology

From abbot + -s- + ford.

Synonyms

Colby Junction

Related words

abbot Abbotford Abbott Abbottford Abbottsford

Derived words

Abbotsford House Abbotsford Club Abbotsfordian Little Abbotsford
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