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Rainford

Rainford proper noun: a large village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD4801).

Proper noun

Rainford (countable and uncountable, plural Rainfords)

  1. A large village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD4801).
  2. A habitational surname.

Forms of Rainford

pluralRainfords
alternative formRanford

Origin of Rainford

From Old Norse rein (“boundary”), Old Norse roynir (“rowan”) or the Old English personal name *Regna + ford (“ford”).

Words formed from Rainford

Questions about Rainford

What does Rainford mean?
Rainford means a large village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD4801).
What part of speech is Rainford?
Rainford is a proper noun.

Words near Rainford in the dictionary

  1. rainfallwise
  2. rainfast
  3. rainfed
  4. rainflow
  5. rainflows
  6. Rainford
  7. Rainford Junction
  8. Rainfords
  9. rainforest
  10. rainforest mystic
  11. rainforest mystics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Rainford (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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