English Explanatory Dictionary

Beeston

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A place in England:
  2. A hamlet in Sandy parish, Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref SP1648).
  3. A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire; the location of Beeston Castle (OS grid ref SJ5458).
  4. A village in Beeston with Bittering parish, Breckland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TF9115).
  5. A town in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK5236).
  6. A suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE2830).
  7. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Beeston Beestons

Etymology

From Middle English Bestone, from Old English *Bēostūn, from *bēos (“bentgrass”) (from Proto-West Germanic *beusu (“rush”)) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Derived words

Beeston with Bittering
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on B Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary