English Explanatory Dictionary

Wetherby

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4048).
  2. A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Word forms

Wetherby Wetherbys Weatherbee Weatherby Weathersby Wetherbee Witherbee

Etymology

From Old Norse veðr (“wether (sheep)”) + býr (“farmstead”).

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