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newburn

/nˈubˌɝn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English

Syllables
new-burn
IPA
/nˈubˌɝn/
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A village in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, west of the city and on the north bank of the Tyne (OS grid ref NZ1665).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A civil parish of Fife, Scotland.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

The place-name in Newcastle upon Tyne is from Old English nīwe (“new”) + burh (“fortress”). The second element was later substituted for burn (“stream”). The Fife place-name was historically Nithbren (1150). Possibly from Pictish, perhaps from *Nith, an ethnonym, with a cognate of Welsh bryn (“hill”) or Welsh pren (“tree”).

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Usage

Inflected Forms

Newburns (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce newburn?
The recorded pronunciation is /nˈubˌɝn/.
What does newburn mean?
A surname.
Where does newburn come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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