Wilberforce
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English Wilburh + foss (“ditch”); Wilburh was a female given name from wil (“will”) + burh (“fortress”).
Proper noun
[edit]Wilberforce
- An English surname from Old English, most common in Yorkshire.
- William Wilberforce, English politician and abolitionist.
- A place name:
- A small town in the City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia.
- A community of Highlands East municipality, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
- A census-designated place in Greene County, Ohio, United States, named after William Wilberforce.
- A neighbourhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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- English lemmas
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- English surnames
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- en:Towns in New South Wales
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- en:Census-designated places in Ohio, USA
- en:Census-designated places in the United States
- en:Places in Ohio, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Neighbourhoods in Sierra Leone
- en:Places in Sierra Leone