Westbury

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proper noun

A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6235).

OriginOld English west →
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Meanings

proper nounWestbury (countable and uncountable, plural Westburys)

plural Westburys

  1. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6235).
  2. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3509).
  3. countableuncountableA town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST868511).
  4. countableuncountableA suburb of Limerick, within County Clare, Ireland.
  5. countableuncountableA township municipality in Le Haut-Saint-François regional county municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  6. countableuncountableA town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
  7. countableuncountableA village in the town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, United States.
  8. countableuncountableA hamlet in the towns of Victory, Cayuga County and Butler, Wayne County, New York.
  9. countableuncountableA neighbourhood in south-west Houston, Texas, United States.
  10. countableuncountableA suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
  11. countableuncountableA town in Meander Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia.
  12. countableuncountableA locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
  13. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.

Origin

  1. Old Englishwest“west”
  2. EnglishWestbury

From Old English west (“west”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”), alternatively west + -bury.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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