Peebles

P3E1E1B3L1E1S1

proper noun

A town (royal burgh) in Tweeddale, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, and the former county town of Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT2540).

OriginScots Peebles ← Scottish Gaelic Na ← Proto-Brythonic *pėbɨll →
Less commonScrabble 11
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

proper nounPeebles (countable and uncountable, plural Peebleses)

plural Peebleses

  1. A placename
    1. countableuncountableA town (royal burgh) in Tweeddale, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, and the former county town of Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT2540).
    2. countableuncountableA hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Chester No. 125, Saskatchewan, Canada.
    3. countableuncountableA village in Adams County, Ohio, United States.
    4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States.
    5. countableuncountableA locality north-west of Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand.
  2. countableuncountableA surname.

Origin

  1. Latinpāpiliō
  2. Vulgar Latinpăpiliō
  3. Proto-Brythonic*pėbɨll“tent, temporary settlement”
  4. Scottish GaelicNa
  5. ScotsPeebles
  6. EnglishPeebles

* The town in Scotland is from Scots Peebles, from Scottish Gaelic Na Pùballan, of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *pėbɨll (“tent, temporary settlement”), from Vulgar Latin păpiliō, from Latin pāpiliō. Doublet of papilio, papillon, and pavilion. * The surname is Scottish and derived from the town. * The towns in Canada, the U.S. and New Zealand are named either after the town in Scotland or after a person bearing the surname.

More words from Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Proto-Brythonic

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

besleep
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

Source: Peebles on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.