Sudbury
UK/sʌdbəɹi/
Sudbury proper noun: a village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1632).
Proper noun
Sudbury
- A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1632).
- A suburb and ward in the borough of Brent, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ1685).
- A market town and civil parish with a town council in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL8741).
- A city, a municipality in northern Ontario; in full, Greater Sudbury; established 2001.
- This can be tedious, especially the minutiae of French laws and policies in Canada. When the discussion zooms in on a hot debate on raising the Franco-Ontarian flag in Sudbury, Ontario, it is hard not to feel that the topic of French in Canada has perhaps been exhausted.2006 November 29, William Grimes, “The French Have a (Precise and Elegant) Word for It”, in The New York Times
- A district in northern Ontario; in full, Sudbury District; Greater Sudbury exists as an enclave fully enclosed within the district, but administered separately.
- A former regional municipality of the Sudbury District, Northern Ontario, Ontario; in full, Regional Municipality of Sudbury; created in 1973, carved out of the eponymous district; that was merged into Greater Sudbury in 2001.
- A former city in Regional Municipality of Sudbury, Sudbury District, in Northern Ontario; established in 1883 as Sainte-Anne-des-Pins; that was merged into Greater Sudbury in 2001.
- A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
- A town in Rutland County, Vermont.
Origin of Sudbury
From Old English suþ (“south”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of Southborough, Southbury, and Sudborough.
Words formed from Sudbury
- Downtown Sudbruy
- Greater Sudbury
- New Sudbury
- Old Sudbury
- Regional Municipality of Sudbury
- Sudbury District
- Sudbury Hill
- sudburyite
Questions about Sudbury
- What does Sudbury mean?
- Sudbury means a village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1632).
- What part of speech is Sudbury?
- Sudbury is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Sudbury?
- Sudbury is pronounced /sʌdbəɹi/ (UK).
Words near Sudbury in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Sudbury (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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