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Wedderburn

Wedderburn proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Wedderburn (countable and uncountable, plural Wedderburns)

  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. An unincorporated community in Curry County, Oregon, United States.
  3. A suburb of Sydney in the Campbelltown council area, New South Wales, Australia.
  4. A town in the Shire of Loddon, north western Victoria, Australia.

Forms of Wedderburn

pluralWedderburns

Origin of Wedderburn

Scottish habitational surname from a place in Berwickshire, from Old English weþer (“wether, castrated ram”) + burna (“stream, burn”).

Words formed from Wedderburn

Questions about Wedderburn

What does Wedderburn mean?
Wedderburn means a surname from Old English.
What part of speech is Wedderburn?
Wedderburn is a proper noun.

Words near Wedderburn in the dictionary

  1. Weddell seal
  2. Weddell seals
  3. weddellite
  4. Weddells
  5. wedder
  6. Wedderburn
  7. Wedderburn Junction
  8. Wedderburns
  9. wedders
  10. weddest
  11. weddeth

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