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Caister en · PROPN

Etymology

From Old English ċeaster (“city, town”), a borrowing from Latin castrum (“camp”). Doublet of castrum and Chester.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of Caister-on-Sea: a coastal town and civil parish in Great Yarmouth borough, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG5212).
  2. (countable, uncountable) A habitational surname from Old English.

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Caisters Number=Plur lexicographic