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banbury

/ˈbænbɹi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.64 in modern English

Syllables
Ban-bu-ry
IPA
/ˈbænbɹi/
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540).

noun

A Banbury cake.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A yellow, strongly-flavoured cheese.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A type of codebreaking sheet printed in Banbury and used by Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma cipher during World War II.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Old English Bannanburg, from Old English *Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, bona (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) (see bane) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈbænbɹi/
  • British English: /ˈbænbɹi/

Usage

Inflected Forms

Banburies (plural)

Derived Forms

Banburismus

Phrases

Banbury cake Banbury mixer Banbury story Banbury story of a cock and a bull Banbury tart

Rhymes With

cranberry hanbury stanbury stanberry granberry

Questions

How do you pronounce banbury?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbænbɹi/.
What does banbury mean?
A market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540).
Where does banbury come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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