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Somerville

/ˈsʌmə(ɹ)vɪl/

Somerville proper noun: a Scottish surname. Also the ellipsis of Somerville College.

Proper noun

Somerville

  1. A Scottish surname.
  2. A township in Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne.
  3. A town in Morgan County, Alabama.
  4. A small town in Gibson County, Indiana.
  5. A town in Lincoln County, Maine.
  6. A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
    • There’s a YIMBY group in Somerville, Massachusetts, and one in Los Angeles; there’s a San Francisco YIMBY party and a YIMBY group in Portland. YIMBYtown, a national conference, will take place in Oakland this month; Helsinki is hosting Yimbycon in August.2017 July 5, Alana Semuels, “From 'Not in My Backyard' to 'Yes in My Backyard'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2017
    • While at school, he worked in […] the disgusting slush of Boston’s outer suburbs. He got accustomed to driving all day to a job site, working, and then driving the winding roads and blind curves to Somerville, only to wake up and do it again the next morning.2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 98
  7. A borough, the county seat of Somerset County, New Jersey.
  8. An unincorporated community in Butler County, Ohio.
  9. A town, the county seat of Fayette County, Tennessee.
  10. A small city in Burleson County, Texas, named after railroad president Albert Somerville.
  11. A crater in the eastern part of the Moon.

Also used as

Somerville is also the ellipsis of Somerville College.

Somerville is also the ellipsis of Somerville College Boat Club.

Origin of Somerville

Perhaps from Somer + -ville.

Words formed from Somerville

Phrases with Somerville

Questions about Somerville

What does Somerville mean?
Somerville means a Scottish surname.
What part of speech is Somerville?
Somerville is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Somerville?
Somerville is pronounced /ˈsʌmə(ɹ)vɪl/.

Words near Somerville in the dictionary

  1. Somersham
  2. Somersworth
  3. Somerton
  4. Somervell
  5. Somervell County
  6. Somerville
  7. Somerville Hall
  8. Somervillian
  9. Somervillians
  10. Somes
  11. Someses

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