English Explanatory Dictionary

Banbury

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540).
noun
  1. A Banbury cake.
  2. A yellow, strongly-flavoured cheese.
  3. A type of codebreaking sheet printed in Banbury and used by Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma cipher during World War II.

Pronunciation

/ˈbænbɹi/

Word forms

Banbury Banburies

Etymology

From Old English Bannanburg, from Old English *Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, bona (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) (see bane) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”).

Derived words

Banbury cake Banbury mixer Banbury story Banbury story of a cock and a bull Banbury tart Banburismus
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