Sudbury

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1632).
  2. 2
    A suburb and ward in the borough of Brent, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1685).
  3. 3
    A market town and civil parish with a town council in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL8741).
  4. 4
    A city in northern Ontario, Canada, properly Greater Sudbury.

    "This can be tedious, especially the minutiae of French laws and policies in Canada. When the discussion zooms in on a hot debate on raising the Franco-Ontarian flag in Sudbury, Ontario, it is hard not to feel that the topic of French in Canada has perhaps been exhausted."

  5. 5
    A district in northern Ontario; in full, Sudbury District.
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  1. 6
    A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
  2. 7
    A town in Rutland County, Vermont.

Etymology

From Old English suþ (“south”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of Southborough and Southbury.

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