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name
A place in England:
A small village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU4572).
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A place in England:
A large village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6580).
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A place in England:
A hamlet in Boughton under Blean parish, Swale district, Kent (OS grid ref TR0657).
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name
A place in England:
A civil parish north-east of Salisbury, Wiltshire.
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A community in Woolwich township, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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name
A surname from Old English.
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noun
A stream that only flows in winter or after wet weather, particularly in an area rich in limestone.
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Usage: UK
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History
From Old English Winterburna < winter + burna (“stream”), 'the stream that flows in winter'.
From winter + bourne (“seasonal brook or stream”), partly also from the placenames Winterborne, Winterbourne, which are derived from Old English winterburna (“stream that is full in winter”), from winter (from Proto-Germanic *wintruz, further etymology uncertain) + burna (“stream”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bhrewh1- (“to boil; to brew”)). The Old English word appears to have survived only in placenames.
Across languages
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