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Killingworth

Killingworth proper noun: a town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2771).

Proper noun

Killingworth (countable and uncountable, plural Killingworths)

  1. A town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2771).
  2. A small suburb of Newcastle in the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
  3. A locality in the Shire of Murrindindi, central eastern Victoria, Australia.
  4. A town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States.
    • He also mentioned that state police covering Killingworth would not handle Freedom of Information Act requests and that the town must handle them.2026 July 15, Jayne Chacko, “2 CT towns end contracts with automated license plate reader company Flock Safety”, in NBC Connecticut, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2026
  5. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of Killingworth

pluralKillingworths
alternative formKillingsworth

Origin of Killingworth

From the unattested Old English personal name *Cylla + -ing (“belonging to”) + worþ (“enclosure”).

Questions about Killingworth

What does Killingworth mean?
Killingworth means a town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2771).
What part of speech is Killingworth?
Killingworth is a proper noun.

Words near Killingworth in the dictionary

  1. killingry
  2. killings
  3. Killingsworth
  4. Killingsworths
  5. Killington Peak
  6. Killingworth
  7. Killingworths
  8. Killinick
  9. killinite
  10. killion
  11. killions

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