Word.ws English Dictionary

Shortstown

Shortstown proper noun: a village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0746).

Proper noun

Shortstown

  1. A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0746).

Origin of Shortstown

From Short + -s- + town, named after the Short Brothers factory.

Questions about Shortstown

What does Shortstown mean?
Shortstown means a village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0746).
What part of speech is Shortstown?
Shortstown is a proper noun.

Words near Shortstown in the dictionary

  1. shortstacks
  2. shortstop
  3. shortstopped
  4. shortstopping
  5. shortstops
  6. Shortstown
  7. shortstuff
  8. shortsword
  9. shortswords
  10. Shortt
  11. Shortt clock

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Shortstown (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: “Shortstown.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shortstown. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.