Wentworth

W4E1N1T1W4O1R1T1H4

proper noun

A village in Newton County, Missouri.

OriginOld English winter →
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Meanings

proper nounWentworth (countable and uncountable, plural Wentworths)

plural Wentworths

  1. Any of several placenames in England and elsewhere.
    1. countableuncountableA village in Newton County, Missouri.
    2. countableuncountableA town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
    3. countableuncountableA town, the county seat of Rockingham County, North Carolina.
    4. countableuncountableA village in Lake County, South Dakota.
    5. countableuncountableA community in south-west Calgary, Alberta.
    6. countableuncountableA rural community of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
    7. countableuncountableA township municipality in the Laurentides, Quebec.
    8. countableuncountableA small village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4878).
    9. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3898).
    10. countableuncountableA suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
    11. countableuncountableA town in Wentworth Shire, south-west New South Wales, Australia, on the border with Victoria.
    12. countableuncountableAn electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
    13. countableuncountableA locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.
  2. countableuncountableThe Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, England.
  3. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.

Origin

  1. Old Englishwinter“winter”
  2. EnglishWentworth

From either the Old English byname Wintra, or Old English winter (“winter”) + worþ (“enclosure”).

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APA

Wentworth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wentworth

MLA

“Wentworth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wentworth. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Wentworth,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wentworth.

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