Meanings
plural Beestons
- A place in England:
- countableuncountableA hamlet in Sandy parish, Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref SP1648).
- countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire; the location of Beeston Castle (OS grid ref SJ5458).
- countableuncountableA village in Beeston with Bittering parish, Breckland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TF9115).
- countableuncountableA town in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK5236).
Standing on the corner of a west Hollywood street in Los Angeles is a giant pink building, brutalist in design but strikingly modern in style, and it is owned by Beeston's own fashionista Paul Smith.
2021 April 16, Joseph Locker, “Paul Smith's 'pink wall' in Los Angeles becomes Insta-famous”, in Nottingham Post, archived from the original on 15 May 2021 - countableuncountableA suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE2830).
- countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*beusu“rush”
- Old English*Bēostūn
- Middle EnglishBestone
- EnglishBeeston
From Middle English Bestone, from Old English *Bēostūn, from *bēos (“bentgrass”) (from Proto-West Germanic *beusu (“rush”)) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
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Beeston. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Beeston
“Beeston.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Beeston. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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