Etymology

Kingswood

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Today it means: A hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in Buckinghamshire, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6918). Full definition →

Old English cyning
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromcyning“king”
  2. English todayKingswood

From Old English cyning (“king”) + -s- + wudu (“wood”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishcyning all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.