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Banbury
//ˈbænbɹi// name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540).
Noun
- 1 A Banbury cake. countable, uncountable
- 2 A yellow, strongly-flavoured cheese. countable, historical, uncountable
- 3 A type of codebreaking sheet printed in Banbury and used by Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma cipher during World War II. countable, historical, uncountable
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Old English Bannanburg, from Old English *Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, bona (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) (see bane) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”).
Etymology 2
From Old English Bannanburg, from Old English *Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, bona (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) (see bane) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”).
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