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Biggar

Biggar proper noun: a village in Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD186662).

Proper noun

Biggar (countable and uncountable, plural Biggars)

  1. A village in Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD186662).
  2. A town and civil parish of South Lanarkshire council area, Lanarkshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NT045375).
  3. A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  4. A rural municipality in western Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Biggar No. 347.
  5. A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Forms of Biggar

pluralBiggars

Origin of Biggar

Probably from Old Norse bygg (“barley”) + geiri (“gore, triangular plot of land”), or from Old English beow + Old English gāra, same meaning.

Questions about Biggar

What does Biggar mean?
Biggar means a village in Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD186662).
What part of speech is Biggar?
Biggar is a proper noun.

Words near Biggar in the dictionary

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  2. bigg
  3. Bigga
  4. biggah
  5. biggahs
  6. Biggar
  7. Biggara
  8. Biggars
  9. bigge
  10. bigged
  11. bigged up

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