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Abbotsford

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Etymology

Coined by Royal Engineer John Cunningham Maclure, who settled there in the 1890s. From Abbotsford House and Abbott in combination. Abbotsford House, coined by Sir Walter Scott in 1811 after the nearby ford of Abbotsford on the River Tweed, named after the abbey and monks who used the ford, from abbot + -s- + ford. Of Abbott, in Abbott + -s- + ford, from the name of Canadian Pacific Railway superintendant Henry Abbott and Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott. Abbott and Abbotsford House in combination were used as the basis of the name of the Canadian settlement.

  1. inherited from *pértus✻ — “crossing”
  2. inherited from *furduz✻
  3. inherited from *furdu✻
  4. inherited from ford
  5. inherited from fōrd
  6. compounded as abbotsford — “abbot + -s- + ford”

Definitions

  1. A ford in the Tweed, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, near Melrose Abbey.

  2. A suburb of Sydney in the Canada Bay council area, New South Wales, Australia.

  3. A hamlet in Burgess Hill parish, Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref…

    A hamlet in Burgess Hill parish, Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3020).

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A city and large municipality in Fraser Valley Regional District, Lower Mainland, British…

      A city and large municipality in Fraser Valley Regional District, Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada, in the Fraser Lowland. See Abbotsford, British Columbia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

    2. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

    3. A suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

    4. A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, named for an Australian farm named for the…

      A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, named for an Australian farm named for the ford.

    5. A suburb, part of Green Island, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, named for surveyor Edmund…

      A suburb, part of Green Island, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, named for surveyor Edmund Abbot.

    6. A city in Wisconsin, United States, named for Wisconsin Central railroad executive Edwin…

      A city in Wisconsin, United States, named for Wisconsin Central railroad executive Edwin Hale Abbott.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA