Bexley

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A suburban town in the borough of Bexley, south-east Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4973).
  2. A London borough of Greater London.
  3. A former township in the former Victoria County, now City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
  4. An unincorporated community in George County, Mississippi, United States.
  5. A city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Columbus.
  6. An eastern suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
  7. A rural locality north of the Waimakariri River, Canterbury, New Zealand.
  8. A suburb of Sydney in Bayside council area, New South Wales, Australia.
  9. A female given name.

Pronunciation

/ˈbɛksli/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-Bexley.wav

Word forms

Bexley

Etymology

From Old English byxe (“box tree”) + leah (“wood”), equivalent to box + -ley (“lea”).

Derived words

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.