English Explanatory Dictionary

Biggar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village in Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD186662).
  2. A town and civil parish of South Lanarkshire council area, Lanarkshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NT045375).
  3. A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  4. A rural municipality in western Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Biggar No. 347.
  5. A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Word forms

Biggar Biggars

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse bygg (“barley”) + geiri (“gore, triangular plot of land”), or from Old English beow + Old English gāra, same meaning.

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