Sandown

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proper noun

A town and civil parish with a town council on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5984). , from Old English sand and hamm, meaning 'the sandy enclosure or river-meadow'.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A town and civil parish with a town council on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5984). , from Old English sand and hamm, meaning 'the sandy enclosure or river-meadow'.

    A ‘slum zoo’ in Sandown and a nation in decline, but here we go. What a life.

    2019, Isabel Waidner, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff, Dostoyevsky Wannabe Originals, page 101
  2. A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States, named after Sandown, IoW.
  3. A suburb of Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Translations

French Sandown
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Ukrainian Сандаун
  • Сандаун (Sandaun)Translations
Cite this entry
APA

Sandown. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sandown

MLA

“Sandown.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sandown. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sandown,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sandown.

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