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Bingley

Bingley proper noun: a market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE108389).

Proper noun

Bingley (countable and uncountable, plural Bingleys)

  1. A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE108389).
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.
    • Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance […]1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC

Forms of Bingley

pluralBingleys

Origin of Bingley

From the Old English personal name Bynna + -ing (“belonging to”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

Words formed from Bingley

Questions about Bingley

What does Bingley mean?
Bingley means a market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE108389).
What part of speech is Bingley?
Bingley is a proper noun.

Words near Bingley in the dictionary

  1. bingings
  2. Binginwarri
  3. bingle
  4. bingled
  5. bingles
  6. Bingley
  7. Bingley Terrier
  8. Bingleys
  9. bingling
  10. Bingman
  11. Bingmans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bingley (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.

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