English Explanatory Dictionary

Hordley

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village and civil parish in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3830).
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Hordley Hordleys

Etymology

Perhaps from Old English hord (“hoard, treasure”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to hoard + -ley (“lea”).

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 H Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary