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Banbury

Syllables: Ban·bu·ryUK/ˈbænbɹi/

Banbury proper noun: a market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540).

Proper noun

Banbury

  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

Banbury (countable and uncountable, plural Banburies)

  1. A Banbury cake.
  2. (historical) A yellow, strongly-flavoured cheese.
  3. (historical) A type of codebreaking sheet printed in Banbury and used by Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma cipher during World War II.

Forms of Banbury

pluralBanburies

Origin of Banbury

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”).

Words formed from Banbury

Phrases with Banbury

Questions about Banbury

What does Banbury mean?
Banbury means a market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540).
What part of speech is Banbury?
Banbury can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Banbury?
Banbury is pronounced /ˈbænbɹi/ (UK).

Words near Banbury in the dictionary

  1. Banbridge
  2. Banburies
  3. Banburismus
  4. Banburist
  5. Banburists
  6. Banbury
  7. Banbury cake
  8. Banbury cakes
  9. Banbury mixer
  10. Banbury mixers
  11. Banbury stories

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