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Basingstoke

UK/ˈbeɪzɪŋ(ɡ)stəʊk/

Basingstoke proper noun: a town in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England.

Proper noun

Basingstoke

  1. A town in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England.
    • I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke.2015 July 9, Hadley Freeman, “Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2018

Words formed from Basingstoke

Questions about Basingstoke

What does Basingstoke mean?
Basingstoke means a town in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England.
What part of speech is Basingstoke?
Basingstoke is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Basingstoke?
Basingstoke is pronounced /ˈbeɪzɪŋ(ɡ)stəʊk/ (UK).

Words near Basingstoke in the dictionary

  1. basing on
  2. basing upon
  3. Basinger
  4. Basingers
  5. basings
  6. Basingstoke
  7. Basingstoke and Deane
  8. Basingstoker
  9. Basingstokers
  10. basinhopping
  11. basining

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