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Lavington

Lavington proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Lavington (countable and uncountable, plural Lavingtons)

  1. (countable) A surname from Old English.
  2. A suburb of Albury, New South Wales, Australia.
  3. An unincorporated community in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada.
  4. A suburb of Nairobi, Kenya.

Forms of Lavington

pluralLavingtons

Origin of Lavington

Habitational surname from the villages of Market Lavington and West Lavington, from an Old English personal name *Lāfa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Questions about Lavington

What does Lavington mean?
Lavington means a surname from Old English.
What part of speech is Lavington?
Lavington is a proper noun.

Words near Lavington in the dictionary

  1. Lavin
  2. Lavine
  3. Lavines
  4. laving
  5. lavings
  6. Lavington
  7. Lavingtons
  8. Lavinia
  9. Lavins
  10. Lavinsky
  11. lavinskyite

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