English Explanatory Dictionary

Dowdeswell

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England.
  2. A surname from Old English.

Word forms

Dowdeswell Dowdeswells

Etymology

From the unattested Old English personal name *Dogod + -s- + wella (“well, spring, stream”).

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