Banbury
English
Etymology
From Old English Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, banna (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”) (from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈbænbɹi/
- Hyphenation: Ban‧bu‧ry
Proper noun
Banbury
- A market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540).
Derived terms
- Banbury cake
- Banbury story
- Banbury story of a cock and a bull
Noun
Banbury (countable and uncountable, plural Banburies)
- A Banbury cake.
- (historical) A yellow, strongly-flavoured cheese.
- (historical) A type of codebreaking sheet printed in Banbury and used by Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma cipher during World War II.
Derived terms
- Banburismus
Further reading
Banbury on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Burnaby