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Abbotsford en · PROPN · etymology 1

Etymology

From abbot + -s- + ford.

Meanings

  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 TQ3020).

Deriveds

Abbotsfordian · Abbotsford Club · Little Abbotsford · Abbotsford House

Translations (3)

ur ایبٹس فورڈ (suburb of Sydney in the Canada Bay council area, New South Wales, Australia) · ur ایبوٹس فورڈ (hamlet in Burgess Hill, Mid Sussex, West Sussex, England) · fa آبتسفورد (suburb of Sydney in the Canada Bay council area, New South Wales, Australia)

Abbotsford en · PROPN · etymology 2

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.

Meanings

  1. 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

Coordinates

Sumas Prairie (regions of the City of Abbotsford)

Translations (24)

ur ایبٹس فورڈ (city in British Columbia, Canada) · sh Аботсфорд (city in British Columbia, Canada) · pa ਐਬਟਸਫੋਰਡ (city in British Columbia, Canada) · ml ആബട്സ്ഫോർഡ് (city in British Columbia, Canada) · pnb ایباٹسفورڈ (city in British Columbia, Canada) · es Abbotsford (city in British Columbia, Canada) · ja アボッツフォード (city in British Columbia, Canada) · he אבוטספורד (city in British Columbia, Canada) · ko 애버츠퍼드 (city in British Columbia, Canada) · cmn 阿伯茨福德 (city in British Columbia, Canada) · el Άμποτσφορντ (city in British Columbia, Canada) · tt Әботсфорд (city in British Columbia, Canada) · yue 亞布斯佛 /亚布斯佛 (city in British Columbia, Canada) · cmn 亞布斯佛 /亚布斯佛 (city in British Columbia, Canada) · ru Абботсфорд (city in British Columbia, Canada) · arz ابوتسفورد (city in British Columbia, Canada) · hi एबॉट्सफ़ोर्ड (city in British Columbia, Canada) · ar ْأَبُوتْسْفُرْد (city in British Columbia, Canada) · cmn 打布佛 (city in British Columbia, Canada) · be Эбатсфард (city in British Columbia, Canada) · fa ابوتسفورد (city in British Columbia, Canada) · fr Abbotsford (city in British Columbia, Canada) · uk Абботсфорд (city in British Columbia, Canada) · sh Abotsford (city in British Columbia, Canada)

wikipedia: en:Abbotsford House · wikipedia: en:John Abbott

Abbotsford en · PROPN · etymology 3

Etymology

Named after 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.

Meanings

  1. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  2. A suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

wikipedia: en:Abbotsford House

Abbotsford en · PROPN · etymology 4

Etymology

Named after the ford in Scotland near Melrose Abbey

Meanings

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

Abbotsford en · PROPN · etymology 5

Etymology

From Abbot + -s- + ford.

Meanings

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