English Explanatory Dictionary

Woodborough

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village and civil parish in Gedling district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6347).
  2. A suburb of Winscombe, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4257).
  3. A village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1059).

Word forms

Woodborough

Etymology

From Old English widu (“wood”) + beorg (“hill”), with the second element at some point being misanalyzed as burh, giving the modern form borough. Otherwise, the modern form of beorg would have been berry (“mound, hill”), giving something like *Woodberry.

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