"Whitby" meaning in All languages combined

See Whitby on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

IPA: /ˈwɪtbi/, /ˈʍɪtbi/ Forms: Whitbies [plural]
Etymology: From Old Norse hvítr býr (“white town”). Equivalent to white + -by. Etymology templates: {{der|en|non|hvítr býr||white town}} Old Norse hvítr býr (“white town”), {{suffix|en|white|by}} white + -by Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~}} Whitby (countable and uncountable, plural Whitbies)
  1. A placename:
    A town, seaport, and civil parish with a town council in Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ8911).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Civil parishes of England, Places in England, Places in North Yorkshire, England, Towns in England, Towns in North Yorkshire, England
    Sense id: en-Whitby-en-name-JwW7jfE6 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -by Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -by: 17 4 38 4 3 33
  2. A placename:
    A town in the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Canada, Places in Ontario, Towns in Canada, Towns in Ontario
    Sense id: en-Whitby-en-name-ZwTxlEU1
  3. A placename:
    An unincorporated community and coal town in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in West Virginia, USA, Places in the United States, Unincorporated communities in West Virginia, USA, Unincorporated communities in the United States
    Sense id: en-Whitby-en-name-x3nVnnX4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -by Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 4 43 6 4 19 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -by: 17 4 38 4 3 33
  4. A placename:
    A suburb of Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in New Zealand, Suburbs in New Zealand
    Sense id: en-Whitby-en-name-S8fL07nA
  5. A placename:
    A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Australia, Places in Perth, Places in Western Australia, Suburbs in Western Australia
    Sense id: en-Whitby-en-name-EcBiHL4K
  6. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-Whitby-en-name-zLJicHqr Categories (other): English surnames, English terms suffixed with -by Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -by: 17 4 38 4 3 33
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Whidbee [surname], Whidby [surname] Related terms: Whitby Tourist Information

Inflected forms

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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.