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Holbrook en · PROPN

Etymology

From Old English hol (“hole; hollow, sunken”) + brōc (“stream, brook”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A common placename: ▸ A place in England: ▸ A village and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3645).
2. (countable, uncountable) A common placename: ▸ A place in England: ▸ A hamlet in Charlton Musgrove parish, South Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6828).
3. (countable, uncountable) A common placename: ▸ A place in England: ▸ A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1636).
4. (countable, uncountable) A common placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ A city, the county seat of Navajo County, Arizona.
5. (countable, uncountable) A common placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Oneida County, Idaho.
6. (countable, uncountable) A common placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
7. (countable, uncountable) A common placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ A village in Furnas County, Nebraska.
8. (countable, uncountable) A common placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ A hamlet and census-designated place in the towns of Brookhaven and Islip, Suffolk County, New York.
9. (countable, uncountable) A common placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Multnomah County, Oregon.
10. (countable, uncountable) A common placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Greene County, Pennsylvania.
11. (countable, uncountable) A common placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia.
12. (countable, uncountable) A common placename: ▸ A town in the Greater Hume council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
13. (countable, uncountable) A habitational surname from Old English.

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