Millbrook

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proper noun

A small village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL0138).

Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

proper nounMillbrook (countable and uncountable, plural Millbrooks)

plural Millbrooks

  1. A number of places in England:
    1. countableuncountableA small village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL0138).
    2. countableuncountableA civil parish and village in southeast Cornwall (OS grid ref SX4252).
    3. countableuncountableA suburb of Axminster, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SY3098).
    4. countableuncountableA hamlet in North Molton parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS7530).
    5. countableuncountableA village in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ9799).
    6. countableuncountableA suburb and former civil parish in Southampton, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU3913).
  2. countableuncountableA locality in the Shire of Moorabool, central western Victoria, Australia.
  3. countableuncountableA village in the township of Cavan Monaghan, Ontario, Canada.
  4. A number of places in the United States:
    1. countableuncountableA city in Autauga County and Elmore County, Alabama.
    2. countableuncountableA village in Kendall County, Illinois.
    3. countableuncountableA ghost town in Graham County, Kansas.
    4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Cole County, Missouri.
    5. countableuncountableA village in Dutchess County, New York.

      F. William Free, an advertising executive who attracted passengers to National Airlines and protesters to his agency with one of his best-known campaigns, "I'm Cheryl -- Fly Me," died on Jan. 1 at Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 74, and lived in Millbrook, N.Y.

      2003 January 8, Stuart Lavietes, “F. William Free, 74, Ad Man Behind 'Fly Me'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2022
    6. countableuncountableA former village in Wake County, North Carolina, since incorporated into the city of Raleigh.
    7. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Wayne County, Ohio.
  5. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.

Origin

  1. Old Englishmylen“mill”
  2. EnglishMillbrook

From Old English mylen (“mill”) + brōc (“brook, stream”), equivalent to mill + brook.

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Cite this entry
APA

Millbrook. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Millbrook

MLA

“Millbrook.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Millbrook. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Millbrook,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Millbrook.

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