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Wigtown

Wigtown proper noun: a town in Wigtownshire, of which it is the county town, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.

Proper noun

Wigtown

  1. A town in Wigtownshire, of which it is the county town, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
    • [This book is a] funny memoir of a year in the life of a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown. Inside a Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and a portly cat named Captain, Shaun...2020, Godine, “[Descriptive overview of Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell]”, in [catalog], Godine

Questions about Wigtown

What does Wigtown mean?
Wigtown means a town in Wigtownshire, of which it is the county town, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
What part of speech is Wigtown?
Wigtown is a proper noun.

Words near Wigtown in the dictionary

  1. wigsful
  2. Wigston
  3. Wigston Magna
  4. Wigton
  5. Wigtons
  6. Wigtown
  7. Wigtownshire
  8. wigwag
  9. wigwagged
  10. wigwagger
  11. wigwaggers

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