Sydenham
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Etymology
[edit]From Old English sīdan, dative of sīd (“large, spacious, wide”) + hamm (“water meadow”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Sydenham (countable and uncountable, plural Sydenhams)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A suburban area of Greater London, in the borough of Lewisham, borough of Bromley and borough of Southwark.
- A village in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP7301).
- A suburb of Bridgwater, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3137).
- A suburb of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3364).
- A suburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
- A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
- A community of Frontenac County, Ontario.
- Two rivers named Sydenham River in Ontario, one flowing into Lake Huron, the other into Lake St. Clair.
- A suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.
- A suburb of Durban, South Africa.
- A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Sydenham is the 9103rd most common surname in England, belonging to 676 individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sydenham”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
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