Meanings
- A number of places in the United States:
- A town in Morgan County, Alabama.
- A small town in Gibson County, Indiana.
- A town in Lincoln County, Maine.
- A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
There’s a YIMBY group in Somerville, Massachusetts, and one in Los Angeles; there’s a San Francisco YIMBY party and a YIMBY group in Portland. YIMBYtown, a national conference, will take place in Oakland this month; Helsinki is hosting Yimbycon in August.
2017 July 5, Alana Semuels, “From 'Not in My Backyard' to 'Yes in My Backyard'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Aug 20171 more example
While at school, he worked in […] the disgusting slush of Boston’s outer suburbs. He got accustomed to driving all day to a job site, working, and then driving the winding roads and blind curves to Somerville, only to wake up and do it again the next morning.
2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 98 - A borough, the county seat of Somerset County, New Jersey.
- A town, the county seat of Fayette County, Tennessee.
- A small city in Burleson County, Texas, named after railroad president Albert Somerville.
- A crater in the eastern part of the Moon.
- abbreviationellipsisinformalOxford UniversityEllipsis of Somerville College, Oxford.
- abbreviationellipsisinformalOxford UniversityEllipsis of Somerville College Boat Club.
Origin
Cite this entry
Somerville. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Somerville
“Somerville.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Somerville. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Somerville,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Somerville.
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