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swinburne

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English

Syllables
swin-burne
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A habitational surname from Old English.

Countable

name

A village in the Free State province, South Africa.

Uncountable

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Chollerton, Northumberland, from Old English swīn (“pig, swine”) + burna (“stream, brook”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

Swinburnes (plural) Swinbourn (alternative) Swinbourne (alternative) Swinburn (alternative)

Derived Forms

Swinburnean Swinburnian Swinburnesque

Questions

What does swinburne mean?
A habitational surname from Old English.
Where does swinburne come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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