Westbury

name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6235). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A village and civil parish in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3509). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST868511). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A suburb of Limerick, within County Clare, Ireland. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A township municipality in Le Haut-Saint-François regional county municipality, Quebec, Canada. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A village in the town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A hamlet in the towns of Victory, Cayuga County and Butler, Wayne County, New York. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A neighbourhood in south-west Houston, Texas, United States. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. countable, uncountable
  6. 11
    A town in Meander Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia. countable, uncountable
  7. 12
    A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia. countable, uncountable
  8. 13
    A habitational surname from Old English. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Old English west (“west”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”), alternatively west + -bury.

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