Word.ws English Dictionary

Redfern

Redfern proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Redfern (countable and uncountable, plural Redferns)

  1. A surname.
  2. An inner suburb of the City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  3. A locality in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States, named after George Redfern, a railroad builder.

Forms of Redfern

pluralRedferns

Origin of Redfern

The suburb is named after surgeon William Redfern (1774–1833).

Words formed from Redfern

Phrases with Redfern

Questions about Redfern

What does Redfern mean?
Redfern means a surname.
What part of speech is Redfern?
Redfern is a proper noun.

Words near Redfern in the dictionary

  1. redfash
  2. Redfearn
  3. Redfearns
  4. redfella
  5. redfellas
  6. Redfern
  7. Redferns
  8. Redfield
  9. Redfield ratio
  10. redfin
  11. redfin shark

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Redfern (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Redfern.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/redfern. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.