Shrewsbury

//ˈʃɹəʊzbɹi// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A large market town, the county town of Shropshire, England.
  2. 2
    A civil parish with a town council which includes the town in Shropshire, which partly replaced Shrewsbury and Atcham District when it was abolished in 2009.
  3. 3
    A small hamlet in Chatham-Kent municipality, south-western Ontario, Canada.
  4. 4
    A ghost town in Gore township, Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  5. 5
    A hamlet in Portland parish, Jamaica.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A declining rural unincorporated community in Grayson County, Kentucky.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A former unincorporated community in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; a suburb of New Orleans.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A sizable town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in St. Louis County, Missouri; an inner suburb of St. Louis.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, which has shrunk in size since 1693.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A borough in eastern Monmouth County, New Jersey, formed in 1926 from the township.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Upper Freehold Township, in southwestern Monmouth County, New Jersey.
  8. 13
    A number of places in the United States:; An estuary in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
  9. 14
    A number of places in the United States:; A borough in York County, Pennsylvania.
  10. 15
    A number of places in the United States:; Three townships in Pennsylvania, in Lycoming County, Sullivan County and York County.
  11. 16
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Rutland County, Vermont.
  12. 17
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
  13. 18
    An English earldom.

Etymology

From Old English Sċrobbesburh (literally “fort in the scrubland region”), from *sċrob (“shrub, scrub”) + burh. Compare Shropshire from Sċrobbesċīr, short form of Sċrobbesbyriġ sċīr (literally “shire of Shrewsbury”).

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