Queensbury
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From queen's + -bury. In particular, the New York town is named for the British queen consort Charlotte. The New Brunswick parish is named for the Queen's Rangers, a Loyalist unit during the American Revolution similarly named for Queen Charlotte. The West Yorkshire village derives from earlier Queenshead, both named in honor of a local pub. Cf. Kingsbury.
Proper noun
[edit]Queensbury
- A suburban area in the borough of Brent and borough of Harrow, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ1889). [1]
- A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1030). [2]
- A town, the county seat of Warren County, New York.
- A parish of York County, New Brunswick, Canada.
Related terms
[edit]- Kingsbury (a neighbouring suburb in Greater London)
Etymology 2
[edit]Corruption of Queensberry
Proper noun
[edit]Queensbury
- (attributive, sports, boxing, figurative) Alternative spelling of Queensberry
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- English 3-syllable words
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- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
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- en:Suburbs in Greater London, England
- en:Places in Greater London, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in West Yorkshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Places in West Yorkshire, England
- en:Towns in New York, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:County seats of New York, USA
- en:Places in New York, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Parishes of New Brunswick, Canada
- en:Places in New Brunswick, Canada
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Sports
- en:Boxing
- English terms interfixed with -s-
- English terms suffixed with -bury