English Explanatory Dictionary

Todmorden

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England. Until 1889 it was in both Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɒdmədən/ /ˈtɒdmɔːdən/ /ˈtɒdməɹdən/ /tɔːmdɪn/

Word forms

Todmorden

Etymology

From Old English Totta (“Totta's”) + dene (“valley”); folk etymologies have related it to German Tod (“death”) + French Mort (“death”) + Old English dene (“valley”); or otherwise deriving from Old English tod (“fox”) + mor (“moor”) + dene (“valley”).

Synonyms

Tod
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