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Irlam

Irlam proper noun: a suburb of the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, formerly an urban district in Lancashire (OS grid ref SJ7294).

Proper noun

Irlam

  1. A suburb of the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, formerly an urban district in Lancashire (OS grid ref SJ7294).

Origin of Irlam

Name changed from Irwellham (Irwell + ham) sometime after the 13th century.

Words formed from Irlam

Questions about Irlam

What does Irlam mean?
Irlam means a suburb of the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, formerly an urban district in Lancashire (OS grid ref SJ7294).
What part of speech is Irlam?
Irlam is a proper noun.

Words near Irlam in the dictionary

  1. Irkutsk
  2. Irkutskian
  3. Irkutskians
  4. irky
  5. irl
  6. Irlam
  7. Irlams o' th' Height
  8. Irlbeck
  9. Irlbecks
  10. Irlen syndrome
  11. irloxacin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Irlam (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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