Epping

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/ˈɛpɪŋ/

proper noun

A market town and civil parish in Epping Forest district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL455025).

Less commonScrabble 11

Meanings

proper nounEpping (countable and uncountable, plural Eppings)

plural Eppings

  1. countableuncountableA market town and civil parish in Epping Forest district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL455025).

    His call for nationwide demonstrations “to get the illegal immigrants out”, in the wake of the Epping ruling, underlines that the migrant debate in Britain is now more toxic than at any point since the 1970s.

    2025 August 20, “The Guardian view on the Epping hotel ruling: asylum seekers must not be treated as pariahs in a Faragian Britain”, in The Guardian
  2. countableuncountableA city in Williams County, North Dakota, United States.
  3. countableuncountableA suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  4. countableuncountableA suburb of Melbourne in the City of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia.
  5. countableuncountableAn industrial area of Cape Town, Western Cape province, South Africa.
  6. countableuncountableA commune in Moselle department, Grand Est, France.
  7. countableuncountableA habitational surname.

Origin

  1. Old Englishyppe“upland”
  2. EnglishEpping

From Old English yppe (“upland”) + ing (“meadow”).

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