English Explanatory Dictionary

ouse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Obsolete spelling of ooze.
verb
  1. Obsolete spelling of ooze.
name
  1. Various rivers in England.
  2. River Ouse, Yorkshire: A river in North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.
  3. River Ouse, Sussex: A river in both West Sussex and East Sussex.
  4. River Great Ouse, Northamptonshire and East Anglia.
  5. River Little Ouse, a tributary of the River Great Ouse.
  6. A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.

Word forms

ouse ouses ousing oused

Etymology

From Old English Usa, probably of Romano-British Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *udso-, from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”).

Derived words

Great Ouse Linton-on-Ouse Little Ouse Newton-on-Ouse
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