"Scarborough" meaning in All languages combined

See Scarborough on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

IPA: /ˈskɑɹbəɹoʊ/ [Canada] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Scarborough.wav Forms: Scarboroughs [plural], Scarboro [alternative], Scarbro [alternative], Scarbrough [alternative]
Etymology: From the Old Norse personal name Skarði + borg (“fortress”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|non|-}} Old Norse Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~|s}} Scarborough (countable and uncountable, plural Scarboroughs)
  1. A coastal town in North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA040880). Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in England, Places in North Yorkshire, England, Towns in England, Towns in North Yorkshire, England
    Sense id: en-Scarborough-en-name-bauDuU7P
  2. The Borough of Scarborough, a former local government district in North Yorkshire, abolished without replacement in 2023. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in England, Places in North Yorkshire, England Derived forms: Scandinavian noir
    Sense id: en-Scarborough-en-name-SLsxMpTx Categories (other): Former political divisions
  3. A district and former municipality of Toronto, Canada. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Canada, Places in Ontario, Canada, Places in Toronto Translations (district in Toronto): 士嘉堡 (si⁶ gaa¹ bou²) (Chinese Cantonese), 斯卡伯勒 (Sīkǎbólè) (Chinese Mandarin), Scarborough [masculine] (French), स्कारबरो (skārabro) [masculine] (Marathi), Scarborough (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-Scarborough-en-name-yWtaQbRD Categories (other): Former political divisions, Neighbourhoods of Toronto Disambiguation of 'district in Toronto': 7 13 41 17 19 2
  4. A town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Maine, USA, Places in the United States, Towns in Maine, USA, Towns in the United States
    Sense id: en-Scarborough-en-name-8gE9ERhO
  5. A neighbourhood in the village of Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, New York, United States, named after the English town. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in New York, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Scarborough-en-name-MNyz8DRk Categories (other): Neighborhoods in New York, USA, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Marathi translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 12 2 11 72 2 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 2 28 2 10 55 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 14 2 13 63 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 13 2 12 66 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 2 15 3 22 55 3 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 2 15 3 21 56 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 4 20 4 20 48 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Marathi translations: 8 15 4 27 42 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 7 13 3 30 43 3
  6. A habitational surname from Old Norse. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Scarborough-en-name-xMgiXQXH Categories (other): English surnames

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (9a214a4 and 1b6da77). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.