Word.ws English Dictionary

Bracknell

Bracknell proper noun: a town and civil parish with a town council in Bracknell Forest district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8669).

Proper noun

Bracknell

  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Bracknell Forest district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8669).
  2. A local government district in Berkshire formed in 1974 and renamed Bracknell Forest in May 1988.
  3. A town in Meander Valley council area and the Northern Midlands council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.

Origin of Bracknell

First recorded in a Winkfield Boundary Charter of AD 942 as Braccan heal, perhaps meaning "nook of land belonging to a man called Bracca".

Words formed from Bracknell

Questions about Bracknell

What does Bracknell mean?
Bracknell means a town and civil parish with a town council in Bracknell Forest district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8669).
What part of speech is Bracknell?
Bracknell is a proper noun.

Words near Bracknell in the dictionary

  1. Brackla
  2. Brackley
  3. Brackman
  4. brackmard
  5. brackmards
  6. Bracknell
  7. Bracknell Forest
  8. Brackney
  9. Brackneys
  10. bracks
  11. Brackstone

Source and license

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