English Explanatory Dictionary

Lavington

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A placename, from the surname:
  3. A suburb of Albury, New South Wales, Australia.
  4. An unincorporated community in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada.
  5. A suburb of Nairobi, Kenya.

Word forms

Lavington Lavingtons

Etymology

Habitational surname from the villages of Market Lavington and West Lavington, from an Old English personal name *Lāfa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Related words

East Lavington Market Lavington West Lavington
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