English Explanatory Dictionary

Plowden

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A hamlet in Lydbury North parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3787), probably the origin of the surname.

Word forms

Plowden Plowdens

Etymology

From Old English plega + denu, recorded as Plaueden in 1252.

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