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
- A village in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1632).
- A suburb in the borough of Brent, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1685).
- A market town in Babergh district, Suffolk.
- 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:
- 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.
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- Sudbury District, a district in northern Ontario.
- A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
- A town in Rutland County, Vermont.
Derived terms
- Greater Sudbury
- Sudbury Hill
- sudburyite