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Sandown

Sandown proper noun: a town and civil parish with a town council on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5984). , from Old English sand and hamm, meaning 'the sandy enclosure or river-meadow'.

Proper noun

Sandown

  1. A town and civil parish with a town council on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5984). , from Old English sand and hamm, meaning 'the sandy enclosure or river-meadow'.
    • A ‘slum zoo’ in Sandown and a nation in decline, but here we go. What a life.2019, Isabel Waidner, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff, Dostoyevsky Wannabe Originals, page 101
  2. A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States, named after Sandown, IoW.
  3. A suburb of Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Questions about Sandown

What does Sandown mean?
Sandown means a town and civil parish with a town council on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5984). , from Old English sand and hamm, meaning 'the sandy enclosure or river-meadow'.
What part of speech is Sandown?
Sandown is a proper noun.

Words near Sandown in the dictionary

  1. Sandouping
  2. Sandoval
  3. Sandoval County
  4. Sandow
  5. Sandoway
  6. Sandown
  7. sandownid
  8. sandownids
  9. Sandows
  10. Sandoz
  11. Sandozes

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