Word.ws English Dictionary

Wanlockhead

Wanlockhead proper noun: a village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, close to the border with South Lanarkshire (OS grid ref NS8713).

wanlockhead: a village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, close to the border with South...
Image: Andrew Bowden from London, United Kingdon, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Proper noun

Wanlockhead

  1. A village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, close to the border with South Lanarkshire (OS grid ref NS8713).

Origin of Wanlockhead

Situated at the head of Wanlock Water, a stream that flows north-west.

Questions about Wanlockhead

What does Wanlockhead mean?
Wanlockhead means a village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, close to the border with South Lanarkshire (OS grid ref NS8713).
What part of speech is Wanlockhead?
Wanlockhead is a proper noun.

Words near Wanlockhead in the dictionary

  1. wanky
  2. Wankypedia
  3. Wanless
  4. Wanlesses
  5. Wanli
  6. Wanlockhead
  7. Wanluan
  8. wanly
  9. Wanman
  10. Wann
  11. wanna

Source and license

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