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Screveton

Screveton proper noun: a village and civil parish in Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7343).

Proper noun

Screveton

  1. A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7343).

Origin of Screveton

From Old English sċīrġerēfa (“sheriff, chief officer of a shire”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); the initial Sc-, instead of Sh-, is due to Scandinavian influence.

Questions about Screveton

What does Screveton mean?
Screveton means a village and civil parish in Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7343).
What part of speech is Screveton?
Screveton is a proper noun.

Words near Screveton in the dictionary

  1. scrempt
  2. scrench
  3. screnches
  4. Screven
  5. Screven County
  6. Screveton
  7. screw
  8. screw about
  9. screw all
  10. screw anchor
  11. screw anchors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Screveton (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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