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Sudbury

UK/sʌdbəɹi/

Sudbury proper noun: a village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1632).

Proper noun

Sudbury

  1. A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1632).
  2. A suburb and ward in the borough of Brent, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ1685).
  3. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL8741).
  4. 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
  5. A district in northern Ontario; in full, Sudbury District; Greater Sudbury exists as an enclave fully enclosed within the district, but administered separately.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
  9. 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

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

  1. Sudborough
  2. Sudbourne
  3. Sudbrook
  4. Sudbrooke
  5. sudburite
  6. Sudbury
  7. Sudbury District
  8. Sudbury Hill
  9. sudburyite
  10. sudd
  11. Suddaby

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