Meanings
proper noun
- A town in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England.
I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke.
2015 July 9, Hadley Freeman, “Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2018
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APA
Basingstoke. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Basingstoke
MLA
“Basingstoke.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Basingstoke. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Basingstoke,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Basingstoke.
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