"Cambridgeshire" meaning in English

See Cambridgeshire in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈkeɪmˌbɹɪdʒ.ʃə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Cambridgeshire.wav
Etymology: From Cambridge + -shire. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Cambridge|shire}} Cambridge + -shire Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Cambridgeshire
  1. An inland county in East Anglia, England. County town Cambridge, bordered by Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire. Wikipedia link: Cambridgeshire Categories (place): Cambridgeshire, England, Counties of England, Places in England Derived forms: East Cambridgeshire, South Cambridgeshire

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Cambridge",
        "3": "shire"
      },
      "expansion": "Cambridge + -shire",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Cambridge + -shire.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Cambridgeshire",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -shire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cambridgeshire, England",
          "orig": "en:Cambridgeshire, England",
          "parents": [
            "Counties of England",
            "Counties",
            "Places",
            "Political divisions",
            "Names",
            "Polities",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Counties of England",
          "orig": "en:Counties of England",
          "parents": [
            "Counties",
            "Places",
            "Political divisions",
            "Names",
            "Polities",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in England",
          "orig": "en:Places in England",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "East Cambridgeshire"
        },
        {
          "word": "South Cambridgeshire"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An inland county in East Anglia, England. County town Cambridge, bordered by Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire."
      ],
      "id": "en-Cambridgeshire-en-name-YKIaeS7P",
      "links": [
        [
          "inland",
          "inland"
        ],
        [
          "East Anglia",
          "East Anglia"
        ],
        [
          "England",
          "England#English"
        ],
        [
          "Cambridge",
          "Cambridge"
        ],
        [
          "Lincolnshire",
          "Lincolnshire"
        ],
        [
          "Norfolk",
          "Norfolk"
        ],
        [
          "Suffolk",
          "Suffolk"
        ],
        [
          "Essex",
          "Essex"
        ],
        [
          "Hertfordshire",
          "Hertfordshire"
        ],
        [
          "Bedfordshire",
          "Bedfordshire"
        ],
        [
          "Northamptonshire",
          "Northamptonshire"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Cambridgeshire"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkeɪmˌbɹɪdʒ.ʃə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Cambridgeshire.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Cambridgeshire.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Cambridgeshire.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Cambridgeshire.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Cambridgeshire.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Cambridgeshire"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "East Cambridgeshire"
    },
    {
      "word": "South Cambridgeshire"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Cambridge",
        "3": "shire"
      },
      "expansion": "Cambridge + -shire",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Cambridge + -shire.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Cambridgeshire",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -shire",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Cambridgeshire, England",
        "en:Counties of England",
        "en:Places in England"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An inland county in East Anglia, England. County town Cambridge, bordered by Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inland",
          "inland"
        ],
        [
          "East Anglia",
          "East Anglia"
        ],
        [
          "England",
          "England#English"
        ],
        [
          "Cambridge",
          "Cambridge"
        ],
        [
          "Lincolnshire",
          "Lincolnshire"
        ],
        [
          "Norfolk",
          "Norfolk"
        ],
        [
          "Suffolk",
          "Suffolk"
        ],
        [
          "Essex",
          "Essex"
        ],
        [
          "Hertfordshire",
          "Hertfordshire"
        ],
        [
          "Bedfordshire",
          "Bedfordshire"
        ],
        [
          "Northamptonshire",
          "Northamptonshire"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Cambridgeshire"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkeɪmˌbɹɪdʒ.ʃə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Cambridgeshire.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Cambridgeshire.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Cambridgeshire.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Cambridgeshire.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Cambridgeshire.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Cambridgeshire"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Cambridgeshire meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). 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.