English Explanatory Dictionary

Newburn

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A village in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, west of the city and on the north bank of the Tyne (OS grid ref NZ1665).
  3. A civil parish of Fife, Scotland.

Word forms

Newburn Newburns

Etymology

The Fife place-name was historically Nithbren (1150). Possibly from Pictish, perhaps from *Nith, an ethnonym, with a cognate of Welsh bryn (“hill”) or Welsh pren (“tree”).

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