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name
A placename:
A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7914).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
A placename:
A hamlet in Brough and Shatton parish, High Peak district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1882).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: Brough-on-Noe
Antonyms: none provided
name
A placename:
A town on the Humber estuary in Elloughton-cum-Brough parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9426).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: Brough-on-Humber
Antonyms: none provided
name
A placename:
A hamlet in Collingham parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK8358).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
A placename:
A small village in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND2273).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
A placename:
A settlement on Whalsay, Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU5564).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
A placename:
A settlement next to Burravoe, Yell, Shetland Islands council area (OS grid ref HU5179).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
A habitational surname from Old English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From Old English burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of borough, burgh, and Bury.
A metathetic form of burgh (“mound, settlement”) employed in a special sense; thus a doublet of it, borough, Brough, burr (“halo, brough”), burrow, and Bury. For the semantic development, compare German Hof (“brough, halo, nimb”).
