English Explanatory Dictionary

Overstrand

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A coastal village and civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2440).
  2. A local municipality in Western Cape province, South Africa.

Word forms

Overstrand

Etymology

* In England, from Old English ofer + strand, recorded as Othestranda ^([sic]) in 1086 (DB), and Overstrand in 1231. * In South Africa, basically the same, but probably from Afrikaans or Dutch: compare Dutch over, Afrikaans strand and Dutch strand.

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