windrush
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A river in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, England, a tributary of the Thames.
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A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, named after the river (OS grid ref SP1913).
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The first significant wave of immigration of British African-Caribbean people in the 1940s and 1950s.
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The Windrush scandal; the wrongful deportation of British citizens from the UK in the 2010s, especially of Caribbean immigrants belonging to the Windrush generation.
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The Windrush line on the London Overground.
Example Sentences
- "Black Britain's past stretches back to India and Africa, but more recently it draws inspiration from the several generations who had been forced to settle as slaves in the West Indies. All that history informs pre-Windrush writing in the early twentieth century."
- "Its arrival marked the first large-scale wave of Caribbean immigration into the U.K. post-WWII and the beginning of the Windrush era."
- "It could also help counteract the widespread ignorance about why there are Caribbean people living in Britain in the first place, highlighting the fact that we were invited to come, and the contribution we've made to the nation, not just since Windrush but from the time the Atlantic slave trade began over four hundred years ago."
- "When challenged, the government – and then Home Secretary Amber Rudd – repeatedly denied any awareness of Windrush deportations."
- "A team of reporters was allocated to interviewing the huge number of newly emerging Windrush victims."
- "Two days later, Downing Street refused a formal diplomatic request to discuss Windrush and the issue of deportations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting."
Etymology
First attested in the Domesday Book as Old English Wenric, from Old Welsh gwynn (“white”) + reisko (“fen”). More recent senses derive from the ship HMT Empire Windrush, named after the River Windrush. The arrival of 802 immigrants to the UK from the West Indies onboard the Empire Windrush in 1948 is seen as symbolic of the beginning of mass immigration from the Caribbean to the UK. The Windrush line was named for its running through several parts of London with large British Caribbean population.
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: Wenric