Sudbury en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /sʌdbəɹi/ (UK)
Etymology
From Old English suþ (“south”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of Southborough, Southbury, and Sudborough.
Meanings
- A place in England: ▸ A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1632).
- A place in England: ▸ A suburb and ward in the borough of Brent, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ1685).
- A place in England: ▸ A market town and civil parish with a town council in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL8741).
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A place in Canada ▸ A city, a municipality in northern Ontario; in full, Greater Sudbury; established 2001.
This can be tedious, especially the minutiae of French laws and policies in Canada. When the discussion zooms in on a hot debate on raising the Franco-Ontarian flag in Sudbury, Ontario, it is hard not to feel that the topic of French in Canada has perhaps been exhausted.
2006 November 29, William Grimes, “The French Have a (Precise and Elegant) Word for It”, in The New York Times:
- A place in Canada ▸ A district in northern Ontario; in full, Sudbury District; Greater Sudbury exists as an enclave fully enclosed within the district, but administered separately.
- A place in Canada ▸ A former regional municipality of the Sudbury District, Northern Ontario, Ontario; in full, Regional Municipality of Sudbury; created in 1973, carved out of the eponymous district; that was merged into Greater Sudbury in 2001.
- A place in Canada ▸ A former city in Regional Municipality of Sudbury, Sudbury District, in Northern Ontario; established in 1883 as Sainte-Anne-des-Pins; that was merged into Greater Sudbury in 2001.
- A place in the United States: ▸ A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
- A place in the United States: ▸ A town in Rutland County, Vermont.
Deriveds
Greater Sudbury · Regional Municipality of Sudbury · Sudbury District · Downtown Sudbruy · Old Sudbury · sudburyite · Sudbury Hill · New Sudbury