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Cosgrove

UK/ˈkɒzɡɹəʊv/US/ˈkɑzɡɹoʊv/

Cosgrove proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Cosgrove (countable and uncountable, plural Cosgroves)

  1. (countable) A surname.
    • It was discovered in September 2020 that Cosgrove was raising money on the “Christian crowdfunding site” GiveSendGo to fund his retirement.2021 December 13, Amir Vera, “Louisville detective who fatally shot Breonna Taylor is appealing his termination from the police department”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2022
  2. A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP790426).
  3. An unincorporated community in Chicot County, Arkansas, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.
  5. A suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
  6. A small town in the City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia.

Forms of Cosgrove

pluralCosgroves
alternative formCosgrave
alternative formCosgray
alternative formCosgriff
alternative formCrossgrove

Origin of Cosgrove

Two main origins: * English habitational surname from the village in Northamptonshire, which is named with the Old English personal name *Cōf + -s- + grāf (“grove, thicket”); recorded as Covesgrave in 1086 (DB). * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Coscraigh (“descendant of Coscrach”), a byname from coscrach (“victorious, triumphant”).

Words formed from Cosgrove

Questions about Cosgrove

What does Cosgrove mean?
Cosgrove means a surname.
What part of speech is Cosgrove?
Cosgrove is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Cosgrove?
Cosgrove is pronounced /ˈkɑzɡɹoʊv/ (US).

Words near Cosgrove in the dictionary

  1. cosfamous
  2. Cosford
  3. Cosgrave
  4. Cosgriff
  5. Cosgriffs
  6. Cosgrove
  7. Cosgrove South
  8. Cosgroves
  9. cosh
  10. cosh pocket
  11. cosh pockets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cosgrove (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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