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Yarbrough

Yarbrough proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Yarbrough (plural Yarbroughs)

  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. An unincorporated community in Quitman County, Mississippi, United States.

Forms of Yarbrough

pluralYarbroughs

Origin of Yarbrough

Habitational surname, from Yarborough and Yarburgh in Lincolnshire, from a compound of Old English eorþe (“earth”) + burh (“stronghold”).

Questions about Yarbrough

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

Words near Yarbrough in the dictionary

  1. yarboroughs
  2. Yarbough
  3. Yarboughs
  4. Yarbro
  5. Yarbros
  6. Yarbrough
  7. Yarbroughs
  8. yarbs
  9. Yarck
  10. yarco
  11. Yarcombe

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