Barrington

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proper noun

A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3949).

OriginMedieval Latin Barentinum →
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Meanings

proper nounBarrington (countable and uncountable, plural Barringtons)

plural Barringtons

  1. A placename:
    1. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3949).
    2. countableuncountableA civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, which includes the villages of Great and Little Barrington.
    3. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST3818).
    4. countableuncountableA small village on the Barrington River, New South Wales, Australia.
    5. countableuncountableA locality in Kentish council area, Tasmania, Australia.
    6. countableuncountableA rural community in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
    7. countableuncountableA hamlet in the township of Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada.
    8. countableuncountableA suburban village in Cook County and Lake County, Illinois.
    9. countableuncountableA town in Strafford County, New Hampshire.
    10. countableuncountableA borough in Camden County, New Jersey.
    11. countableuncountableA town in Yates County, New York.
    12. countableuncountableA suburban residential town in Bristol County, Rhode Island.
  2. countableA habitational surname from Old English.

Origin

  1. Medieval LatinBarentinum
  2. EnglishBarrington

* As an English surname, from several placenames, such as the one in Gloucestershire, from the Old English personal name Beorn + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). There is also the placename in Somerset of Norman origin, probably named after Barentin in Seine-Maritime, from Medieval Latin Barentinum, Barentini, of pre-Latin origin, perhaps of Celtic/Gaulish origin and identical with Barenton, both names from a Gaulish word related to water. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), see Barnes, Barron.

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APA

Barrington. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Barrington

MLA

“Barrington.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Barrington. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Barrington,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Barrington.

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