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coombe

/cuːm/

coombe is the alternative form of combe.

Meaning of combe

Noun

combe (plural combes)

  1. A valley, often wooded and often with no river
    • its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe.1914, Saki, ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts
  2. A cirque.

See all 11 meanings of combe

Proper noun capitalized: Coombe

Coombe (countable and uncountable, plural Coombes)

  1. A surname.
  2. A hamlet in Ellesborough parish, Buckinghamshire, previously in Wycombe district (OS grid ref SP8406).
  3. A hamlet in Camborne parish, south-west Cornwall (OS grid ref SW6242).
  4. A hamlet in Gwennap parish, south-east of Redruth, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW7640).
  5. A small village in Kea parish, near Truro, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW8340).
  6. A settlement near Liskeard, Cornwall (OS grid ref SX2363).
  7. A hamlet in Morwenstow parish, north of Bude, Cornwall (OS grid ref SS2011).
  8. A village in St Stephen-in-Brannel parish, west of St Austell, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9551).
  9. A hamlet near Tipton St John, Ottery St Mary parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SY1091).
  10. A settlement in Uplowman parish, Mid Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST0017).
  11. A hamlet in Christow parish, Teignbridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SX8383).
  12. A suburb of Teignmouth, Teignbridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SX9374).
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  1. A settlement in Wotton-under-Edge parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7694).
  2. A small area along Coombe Lane and Coombe Road in the borough of Croydon, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3464).
  3. A suburban area of New Malden, borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2070).
  4. A hamlet in East Meon parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU6620).
  5. A hamlet in Woodnesborough parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2957).
  6. A hamlet in West Crewkerne parish, South Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4009).
  7. A hamlet in Creech St Michael parish and West Monkton parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, previously in Taunton Deane district (OS grid ref ST2729).
  8. A hamlet in Enford parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1550).
  9. Three hamlets, Higher Coombe, Middle Coombe and Lower Coombe, in Donhead St Mary parish, south-west Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8922).
  10. A locality in the south-east of South Australia.

Forms of coombe

Noun
pluralcoombes
Proper noun
pluralCoombes

Origin of coombe

From Old English cumb.

Questions about coombe

What does coombe mean?
Coombe means a surname.
What is coombe the alternative form of?
Coombe is the alternative form of combe.
What part of speech is coombe?
Coombe is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce coombe?
Coombe is pronounced /cuːm/ (UK).

Words near coombe in the dictionary

  1. coomb
  2. Coomba Bay
  3. Coomba Park
  4. Coombaconum
  5. Coombadjha
  6. coombe
  7. Coombell
  8. Coomber
  9. coombes
  10. Coombeses
  11. Coomboona

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coombe (page history and authors); Coombe (page history and authors); combe (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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