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Camperdown

Camperdown proper noun: a suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2772).

Proper noun

Camperdown

  1. A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2772).
  2. An area and park in the City of Dundee council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3632).
  3. A settlement in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
  4. An inner suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  5. A rural town in south-western Victoria, Australia, named after the Earl of Camperdown.

Origin of Camperdown

From the naval Battle of Camperdown, fought off Camperduin in the Netherlands.

Words formed from Camperdown

Phrases with Camperdown

Questions about Camperdown

What does Camperdown mean?
Camperdown means a suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2772).
What part of speech is Camperdown?
Camperdown is a proper noun.

Words near Camperdown in the dictionary

  1. camper
  2. camper shell
  3. camper shells
  4. camper van
  5. camper vans
  6. Camperdown
  7. Camperdown elm
  8. Camperdown elms
  9. campers
  10. campership
  11. camperships

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Camperdown (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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