Wellington

See also: wellington

English

Alternative forms

• (noun) wellington

Etymology 1

From earlier Wēolingtūn, from:

1. For the place in Shropshire, England: Partly uncertain. The second element from Old English tūn (“estate”), while the first element could come either from *wœling (“ridge, bank”), or else from *wēoling (“device, artefact”).
2. For the place in Somerset, England: Partly obscure. The last element from Old English tūn (“estate”), while the first element could come from either the personal name *Wēola + ing, or else *wēoling (“trap”).
3. Many places with this name are named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British soldier and statesman.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛlɪŋtən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈweləŋtən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈweləŋtən/, [ˈwɛlɪŋtɘn]

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Wel‧ling‧ton

Proper noun

Wellington (countable and uncountable, plural Wellingtons)

2. The capital city of New Zealand in the Wellington region.

   Abbreviation: Wgton.

   • 2023 July 8, “Pylon of the Month - July 2023”, in Pylon of the Month‎^[1]:

     After two pylonless months, July's pylon comes all the way from the hills outside Wellington, New Zealand.

3. (metonymic) by extension, the Government of New Zealand.

   Synonym: Beehive

4. A region in the south of the North Island, New Zealand, which includes the capital; in full, Wellington Region.
5. Several places in England:
   1. A locality in Gosforth parish, Copeland borough, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY0704).
   2. A village and civil parish in Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO4948).
   3. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ6511).
   4. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1320).
6. Any of several places in a select number of countries, including:
   1. A town in The Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, India.
   2. A town in the Western Cape, South Africa.
7. A number of places in Australia:
   1. A town in Sumner County, New South Wales.
   2. A tiny township in South Australia.
   3. A local government area in eastern Victoria; in full, the Shire of Wellington.
   4. Ellipsis of the Wellington Land District: a land district in Tasmania, Australia.
8. A number of places in Canada:
   1. A neighborhood of Nanaimo, British Columbia.
   2. A former name of a small incorporated fishing and lumbering village in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, now called Dover.
   3. A community in the Regional Municipality of Halifax, Nova Scotia; a suburb of Halifax.
   4. A community in Yarmouth district municipality, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
   5. A community in Queens County, Nova Scotia.
   6. A community and rural municipality of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
   7. An unincorporated place and community in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
   8. A residential neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
9. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Alabama.
   2. A statutory town in Larimer County, Colorado.
   3. A village in Palm Beach County, Florida.
   4. A village in Lovejoy Township, Iroquois County, Florida.
   5. A city, the county seat of Sumner County, Kansas.
   6. A home rule city in Jefferson County, Kentucky; a suburb of Louisville.
   7. An unincorporated community in Menifee County, Kentucky.
   8. A small city in Piscataquis County, Maine.
   9. An unincorporated community in Gogebic County, Michigan.
   10. An unincorporated community in Lyon County, Nevada, also Wellingtons and Wellingtons Station.
   11. A village in Lorain County, Ohio.
   12. A city, the county seat of Collingsworth County, Texas.
   13. A small city in Carbon County, Utah.
   14. Former name of Tye, King County, Washington, which later became a ghost town.
   15. A small town in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
10. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British soldier and statesman.
11. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English from the places in England.

Derived terms

• Calstone Wellington
• Wellington County
• Wellington District
• Wellingtonian
• Wellington Land District
• Wellington North
• Wellingtons
• Wellington's
• Wellingtons Station
• Wellington Station
• Wellington Without

Noun

Wellington (plural Wellingtons)

1. (card games) In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning quadruple, or losing double, the amount staked.

Translations

capital of New Zealand

• Afrikaans: Wellington
• Albanian: Wellington m
• Amharic: ዌሊንግተን (welingətän)
• Arabic: وِيلِينْغْتُون f (wilinḡtūn)
• Armenian: Վելինգտոն (Velington)
• Asturian: Wellington (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Vellinqton
• Belarusian: Велінгто́н m (Vjelinhtón), Вэ́лінгтан m (Vélinhtan), Уэ́лінгтан m (Uélinhtan)
• Bengali: ওয়েলিংটন (bn) (ōẇeliṅṭon)
• Bulgarian: Уе́лингтън m (Uélingtǎn)
• Burmese: ဝယ်လင်တန် (wailangtan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 威靈頓 / 威灵顿 (zh) (Wēilíngdùn); 惠靈頓 / 惠灵顿 (zh) (Huìlíngdùn)

• Czech: Wellington (cs) m
• Danish: Wellington n
• Dutch: Wellington (nl) n
• Estonian: Wellington (et)
• Finnish: Wellington (fi)
• French: Wellington (fr) f
• Georgian: ველინგტონი (velingṭoni), უელინგტონი (uelingṭoni)
• German: Wellington (de) n
• Greek: Ουέλλινγκτον (el) n (Ouéllingkton)
• Hebrew: וֶלִינְגְּטוֹן f (welington)
• Hindi: वेलिंग्टन m (veliṅgṭan)
• Hungarian: Wellington (hu)
• Icelandic: Wellington
• Italian: Wellington (it)
• Japanese: ウェリントン (ja) (Werinton)
• Kazakh: Веллингтон (Velliñton)
• Khmer: វែលីងតោន (km) (vɛɛliingtoon)
• Korean: 웰링턴 (Wellingteon), 웰링톤 (ko) (Wellington) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Wellington (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Веллингтон (Vellington)
• Latvian: Velingtona f
• Lithuanian: Velingtonas m
• Macedonian: Велингтон m (Velington)
• Maltese: Wellington
• Maori: Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Pōneke
• Marathi: वेलिंग्टन (veliṅgṭan)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Веллингтон (Vellington)

• Navajo: Tábąąh Naayolí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Wellington

• Pashto: وېلېنګټن m (welengṭán)
• Persian: ولینگتون (velington)
• Polish: Wellington (pl) m
• Portuguese: Wellington f
• Romanian: Wellington (ro)
• Russian: Ве́ллингтон (ru) m (Véllington), Веллингто́н (ru) m (Vellingtón), Уэ́ллингтон m (Uéllington)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Велингтон m

  Roman: Wellington m, Velington m

• Slovak: Wellington m
• Slovene: Wellington m
• Spanish: Wellington (es) m
• Swedish: Wellington (sv) n
• Tajik: Веллингтон (Vellington)
• Tatar: Веллингтон (Wellington)
• Thai: เวลลิงตัน (weel-ling-dtân)
• Turkish: Wellington
• Turkmen: Wellington
• Ukrainian: Ве́ллінгтон m (Véllinhton), Веллінгто́н m (Vellinhtón), Ве́ллінґтон m (Véllington), Веллінґто́н m (Vellingtón)
• Urdu: ویلنگٹن m (velingṭan)
• Uyghur: ۋېللىنگتون (wëllin'gton)
• Uzbek: Vellington
• Vietnamese: Oen-linh-tơn
• Yiddish: וועלינגטאָן n (velington)

Etymology 2

A pair of Wellington boots

Named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who wore and popularised this style of boot.

Noun

Wellington (plural Wellingtons)

1. Ellipsis of Wellington boot.

Translations

Wellington boots — see Wellington boots

Etymology 3

Generalization from beef Wellington.

Noun

Wellington (plural Wellingtons)

1. (cooking) Meat or other filling baked in a puff pastry.

Related terms

• beef Wellington
• beet Wellington
• lamb Wellington
• salmon Wellington
• sausage Wellington

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Wellington

1. Wellington (a town in the Western Cape, South Africa)
2. Wellington (the capital city of New Zealand)

Derived terms

• Wellingtonner
• Wellingtons

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛlɪŋkton]

Proper noun

Wellington m inan (relational adjective wellingtonský)

1. Wellington (the capital city of New Zealand)

Declension

Declension of Wellington (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Wellington
genitive	Wellingtonu
dative	Wellingtonu
accusative	Wellington
vocative	Wellingtone
locative	Wellingtoně, Wellingtonu
instrumental	Wellingtonem

Further reading

• “Wellington”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Wellington.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɛˈliŋk.tɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iŋktɔn
• Syllabification: We‧lling‧ton

Proper noun

Wellington m inan

1. Wellington (the capital city of New Zealand)

Declension

Declension of Wellington

	singular
nominative	Wellington
genitive	Wellingtonu
dative	Wellingtonowi
accusative	Wellington
instrumental	Wellingtonem
locative	Wellingtonie
vocative	Wellingtonie

Derived terms

adjective

• wellingtoński

nouns

• wellingtonka
• wellingtończyk

Further reading

• Wellington in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Wellington.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛ.lĩ.tõ/

Proper noun

Wellington ?

1. Wellington (the capital city of New Zealand)

Proper noun

Wellington m

1. a male given name of Brazilian usage

Slovak

Proper noun

Wellington m inan (genitive singular Wellingtonu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Wellington (the capital of New Zealand)

References

• “Wellington”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈw̝elinton/ [ˈw̝e.lĩn̪.t̪õn]
• Rhymes: -elinton
• Syllabification: We‧lling‧ton

Proper noun

Wellington f

1. Wellington

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛlɪŋˌtən/

Proper noun

Wellington f (not mutable)

1. Wellington (the capital of New Zealand)

Mutation

H-prothesis does not affect this word as the ⟨w⟩ here represents the semivowel /w/ rather than a vowel sound.