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Westbury

Westbury proper noun: a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6235).

Proper noun

Westbury (countable and uncountable, plural Westburys)

  1. A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6235).
  2. A village and civil parish in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3509).
  3. A town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST868511).
  4. A suburb of Limerick, within County Clare, Ireland.
  5. A township municipality in Le Haut-Saint-François regional county municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  6. A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
  7. A village in the town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, United States.
  8. A hamlet in the towns of Victory, Cayuga County and Butler, Wayne County, New York.
  9. A neighbourhood in south-west Houston, Texas, United States.
  10. A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
  11. A town in Meander Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia.
  12. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
  13. A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of Westbury

pluralWestburys

Origin of Westbury

From Old English west (“west”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”), alternatively west + -bury.

Words formed from Westbury

Questions about Westbury

What does Westbury mean?
Westbury means a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6235).
What part of speech is Westbury?
Westbury is a proper noun.

Words near Westbury in the dictionary

  1. Westborough and Dry Doddington
  2. westbound
  3. Westbourne
  4. Westbrook
  5. Westbrooks
  6. Westbury
  7. Westbury-on-Severn
  8. Westbury-on-Trym
  9. Westbury-sub-Mendip
  10. Westburys
  11. Westby

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