name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
combe
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: ko͞om
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UK: /kuːm/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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homophone: coom
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homophone: cwm
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rhymes with -uːm
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CMU ARPABET: K OW1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A number of places in England:
A hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU3760).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A number of places in England:
A small village in Brixton parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX5452).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A number of places in England:
A hamlet near Scorriton, West Buckfastleigh parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX7068).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Malborough parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX7138).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 6
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Wadhurst parish, Wealden district, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ6228).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 7
A number of places in England:
A hamlet and civil parish in west Herefordshire, on the border with Wales (OS grid ref SO3463).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 8
A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP4116).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 9
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Huish Episcopi parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4128).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
A valley, often wooded and often with no river
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noun
Meaning 11
A cirque.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Etymology
From Old English cumb.
From Middle English coumbe, cumbe, from Old English cumb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz; compare Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), German Kump (“vessel”). Related to Welsh cwm (“a hollow valley”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”), etc. through Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbh-.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: клисура (klisura) — deep, narrow valley
- Catalan: coma — deep, narrow valley
- Catalan: comal — deep, narrow valley
- French: combe — deep, narrow valley
- Polish: cyrk lodowcowy — deep, narrow valley
- Polish: kar — deep, narrow valley
- Polish: kocioł — deep, narrow valley
- Portuguese: comba — deep, narrow valley