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Cosby

Cosby proper noun: a village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5495).

Proper noun

Cosby (countable and uncountable, plural Cosbys)

  1. A village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5495).
  2. A village in Andrew County, Missouri, United States.
  3. A census-designated place in Cocke County, Tennessee, United States.
  4. A habitational surname.

Forms of Cosby

pluralCosbys
alternative formCozby, Causby

Origin of Cosby

From the Old English personal name *Cossa + Old Norse býr (“farm; settlement”).

Phrases with Cosby

Questions about Cosby

What does Cosby mean?
Cosby means a village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5495).
What part of speech is Cosby?
Cosby is a proper noun.

Words near Cosby in the dictionary

  1. Cosao
  2. cosaque
  3. cosaques
  4. cosavirus
  5. cosaviruses
  6. Cosby
  7. Cosby sweater
  8. Cosby sweaters
  9. Cosbys
  10. coscenarist
  11. coscenarists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cosby (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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