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windsor

/ˈwɪndzɚ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

Syllables
wind-sor
IPA
/ˈwɪndzɚ/
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

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A market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, famous for Windsor Castle. See Windsor, Berkshire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English Wyndelsore, from Old English Windlesōra (“Windsor”, literally “bank with a windlass, winch by the riverside”), from *windel ("reel, winch"; > Middle English windel (“reel, spool”)) + ōra (“bank, shore”). See windlass.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Wyndelsore, Windlesōra

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈwɪndzɚ/
  • British English: /ˈwɪndzə/

Inflected Forms

Windsore (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

Windsorian

Phrases

brown Windsor soup East Windsor full-Windsor half-Windsor Mountbatten-Windsor New Windsor Old Windsor poor knights of Windsor

Synonyms

New Windsor house of windsor

Rhymes With

winsor kinzer linzer winzer

Questions

How do you pronounce windsor?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈwɪndzɚ/.
What does windsor mean?
A market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, famous for Windsor Castle. See Windsor, Berkshire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Where does windsor come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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