English Explanatory Dictionary

Whittlesey

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2797).
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Whittlesey Whittleseys Whittlesea Whitsey

Etymology

From the Old English personal name *Wittel + -s- + īeġ (“island”).

Related words

Whittlesea
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