Word.ws English Dictionary

Bentham

Bentham proper noun: an English habitational surname from Old English derived from any of several places.

Proper noun

Bentham

  1. An English habitational surname from Old English derived from any of several places.
    • Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and social reformer.
  2. A village in Badgeworth civil parish, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9116).
  3. A civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district, that includes High Bentham and Low Bentham.

Origin of Bentham

From Old English *beonot (“bent grass”) + hām (“homestead, village”).

Words formed from Bentham

Questions about Bentham

What does Bentham mean?
Bentham means an English habitational surname from Old English derived from any of several places.
What part of speech is Bentham?
Bentham is a proper noun.

Words near Bentham in the dictionary

  1. bentest
  2. bentgrass
  3. bentgrasses
  4. benth-
  5. benthal
  6. Bentham
  7. Benthamian
  8. Benthamic
  9. Benthamism
  10. Benthamist
  11. Benthamists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Bentham (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: “Bentham.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bentham. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.