English Explanatory Dictionary

Killingworth

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A placename:
  2. A town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2771).
  3. A small suburb of Newcastle in the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
  4. A locality in the Shire of Murrindindi, central eastern Victoria, Australia.
  5. A town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States.
  6. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Killingworth Killingworths Killingsworth

Etymology

From the unattested Old English personal name *Cylla + -ing (“belonging to”) + worþ (“enclosure”).

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