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Appleby

Appleby proper noun: the historical county town of Westmorland, UK, now named Appleby-in-Westmorland (except for the railway station).

Proper noun

Appleby (countable and uncountable, plural Applebys)

  1. The historical county town of Westmorland, UK, now named Appleby-in-Westmorland (except for the railway station).
  2. A village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE9514).
  3. A locality in Tasman, South Island, New Zealand.
  4. A suburb of Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand.
  5. An unincorporated community in Codington County, South Dakota, United States.
  6. A small city in Nacogdoches County, Texas, United States.
  7. A community in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
  8. A locality in the Tamworth council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  9. A surname derived from the English place name.

Forms of Appleby

pluralApplebys
alternative formApplebee

Origin of Appleby

From Old English æppel (“apple”) and Old Norse býr (“farm, town”), from the root of the verb Old Norse búa (“to dwell”).

Words formed from Appleby

Questions about Appleby

What does Appleby mean?
Appleby means the historical county town of Westmorland, UK, now named Appleby-in-Westmorland (except for the railway station).
What part of speech is Appleby?
Appleby is a proper noun.

Words near Appleby in the dictionary

  1. appleblossoms
  2. Applebottom
  3. applebox
  4. appleboxes
  5. applebush
  6. Appleby
  7. Appleby Magna
  8. Appleby-in-Westmorland
  9. Applebys
  10. applecart
  11. applecarts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Appleby (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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