English Explanatory Dictionary

Woolverton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village in Tellisford parish, Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7953).
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Woolverton Woolvertons

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Wulfhere, which is composed of the elements wulf (“wolf”) and here (“army”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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