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Hampstead

name · noun · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈhæmpstɪd/
  • UK: /ˈhæmpstɛd/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: HH AE1 M P S T EH2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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Meaning 1

An affluent suburban area in the borough of Camden, London, England (OS grid ref TQ2685).

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A parish and community therein, in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Meaning 3

A suburb and municipality in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Meaning 4

A town in Carroll County, Maryland.

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Meaning 5

A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

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Meaning 6

A census-designated place in Pender County, North Carolina.

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Meaning 7

A village in Saint Andrew parish, Dominica.

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Meaning 8

A suburb of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand.

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noun

Meaning 9

shortened form of Hampstead Heath: teeth (Cockney rhyming slang).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • That geezer knocked out his bloody Hampsteads, he did!

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History

Etymology

From Old English hām (“homestead”) + stede (“place”). Doublet of Hempstead.

From Hampstead Heath.

Real reading context

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