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Moorhouse

Moorhouse proper noun: a small village in Burgh by Sands parish, City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3356).

Proper noun

Moorhouse (countable and uncountable, plural Moorhouses)

  1. A small village in Burgh by Sands parish, City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3356).
  2. A hamlet in Laxton and Moorhouse parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7566).
  3. A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of Moorhouse

pluralMoorhouses
alternative formMoorehouse
alternative formMorehouse

Origin of Moorhouse

From Old English mōr (“moor, marsh, fen”) + hūs (“house”).

Words formed from Moorhouse

Phrases with Moorhouse

Questions about Moorhouse

What does Moorhouse mean?
Moorhouse means a small village in Burgh by Sands parish, City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3356).
What part of speech is Moorhouse?
Moorhouse is a proper noun.

Words near Moorhouse in the dictionary

  1. Moorgate
  2. Moorhampton
  3. Moorhead
  4. moorhen
  5. moorhens
  6. Moorhouse
  7. moorhouseite
  8. Moorhouses
  9. moori
  10. moorie
  11. moories

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Moorhouse (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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