English Explanatory Dictionary

Royston

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A habitational surname from Old English.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A town and civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England, on the Cambridgeshire border (OS grid ref TL3541).
  4. A large village in Barnsley borough, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3611).
  5. A suburb of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6066).
  6. A seaside hamlet on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
  7. A city in Franklin County, Hart County and Madison County, Georgia, United States.
  8. A ghost town in Fisher County, Texas, United States.

Word forms

Royston

Etymology

From a place name in Hertfordshire, from the medieval given name Royce + Old English tūn (“settlement”).

Derived words

Royston crow
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