English Explanatory Dictionary

Hever

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England, the location of Hever Castle (OS grid ref TQ4744).
  2. A village in Flanders, Belgium.

Word forms

Hever

Etymology

For the place in England: 'The settlement at the high ridge', from Old English Heanyfre, from hēah (“high”), in the oblique case hēan + *ȳfre (“ridge”), or perhaps the Kentish dialectal variant *ēfre (see ōfer for more). In reference to the site being located atop a hill overlooking the valley of the river Eden. Akin to Highover.

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