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Lyneham

Lyneham proper noun: a small village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP2720).

Proper noun

Lyneham

  1. A small village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP2720).
  2. A large village and former RAF base in Lyneham and Bradenstoke parish, north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0278).
  3. A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Named after Sir William Lyne.

Origin of Lyneham

Inherited from Middle English Lynham, from Old English *Līnhām, from līn (“flax”) + hām (“estate”).

Words formed from Lyneham

Questions about Lyneham

What does Lyneham mean?
Lyneham means a small village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP2720).
What part of speech is Lyneham?
Lyneham is a proper noun.

Words near Lyneham in the dictionary

  1. Lynds
  2. Lyndses
  3. Lyndsey
  4. lyne
  5. Lyneal
  6. Lyneham
  7. Lyneham and Bradenstoke
  8. Lynemouth
  9. lynes
  10. Lynesack
  11. Lyneses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lyneham (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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