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brockville

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English

Syllables
brockville
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A city in eastern Ontario, Canada.

name

An outer suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

Etymology

From the surname Brock + -ville. *In Ontario, named after Isaac Brock, major general and temporary administrator of the province of Upper Canada. Formerly named Elizabethtown, then a village. *In Dunedin, named after settler Frederick Brock-Hollinshead.

Questions

What does brockville mean?
A city in eastern Ontario, Canada.
Where does brockville come from?
From the surname Brock + -ville. *In Ontario, named after Isaac Brock, major general and temporary administrator of the province of Upper Canada. Formerly named Elizabethtown, then a village. *In Dunedin, named after settler Frederick Brock-Hollinshead.

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