Word.ws English Dictionary

Beitbridge

Beitbridge proper noun: a border town in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe.

Proper noun

Beitbridge

  1. A border town in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe.
    • The Rhodesia Railways, however, do maintain a passenger and goods road motor service between Gwanda and Beit Bridge.1940 November, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 592

Origin of Beitbridge

From Beit + bridge, being named after the original bridge over the Limpopo River completed in 1929, which was named after Alfred Beit. The spelling Beit Bridge was being used in 1940.

Questions about Beitbridge

What does Beitbridge mean?
Beitbridge means a border town in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe.
What part of speech is Beitbridge?
Beitbridge is a proper noun.

Words near Beitbridge in the dictionary

  1. Beit Hanoun
  2. Beit Lahia
  3. Beit Lahiya
  4. beit olam
  5. Beit Shemesh
  6. Beitbridge
  7. Beitcul
  8. Beiter
  9. Beiters
  10. Beith
  11. Beitler

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Beitbridge (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Beitbridge.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/beitbridge. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.