Sudbury

English

Etymology

From Old English suþ (“south”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of Southbury.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /sʌdbəɹi/

Proper noun

Sudbury

  1. A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1632). [1]
  2. A suburb and ward in the borough of Brent, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1685). [2]
  3. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL8741). [3]
  4. A city in northern Ontario, Canada, properly Greater Sudbury.
    • 2006 November 29, William Grimes, “The French Have a (Precise and Elegant) Word for It”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      This can be tedious, especially the minutiae of French laws and policies in Canada. When the discussion zooms in on a hot debate on raising the Franco-Ontarian flag in Sudbury, Ontario, it is hard not to feel that the topic of French in Canada has perhaps been exhausted.
  5. A district in northern Ontario; in full, Sudbury District.
  6. A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
  7. A town in Rutland County, Vermont.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Parish map (Derbyshire)
  2. ^ Ward map (Brent)
  3. ^ Parish map (Suffolk)
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